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I've heard that human populations in Africa tended to stay away from the regions with the Malaria problems.
by bayesian_horse 7y ago
I've heard that human populations in Africa tended to stay away from the regions with the Malaria problems.
- littlestymaar 7y agoIt's almost the opposite [1][2], and it's not surprising actually. People tend to forget what malaria is: it's an epidemic and it is not caused by the Anopheles, it is spread by the Anopheles if there is a pool of contaminated humans to feed from. That's why you have anopheles in almost every all European countries (including Russia) and also in the US[3], but no malaria, because the epidemic was eradicated there. [1]: map of the African population: http://www.utl-morlaix.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/afrique_population-zones.png http://www.utl-morlaix.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/afriqu... [2]: map of malaria prevalence in Africa https://www.populationdata.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Afrique-Malaria-prevalence-2015.png https://www.populationdata.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Af... [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Anopheles-range-map.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Anopheles-range-map.png