Elephantiasis: Article Analysis

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Other research has been on this specific organisms that creates the disease elephantiasis. The article: New baseline environmental assessment of mosquito ecology in northern Haiti during increase of urbanization: talks all about the environmental elements that can cause the increase of a parasite. The more the mosquitos’ population increase; the more the of misquotes are infected. This article talks about the parasite can being carried by Anopheles mosquitoes. Both article coincide of each because they let you see it as a larger picture. With both articles you can read about the beginning stages and increase in population. The development and research on the disease the parasite had created. How people deal with it every day. They give you

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