Imagine You Are Working for the Florida Public Health Department

question 14

Multiple Choice

Imagine you are working for the Florida Public Health Department and you have been assigned the task of preventing malaria from spreading throughout the southern Everglades.Which of the following scenarios would have a chance of success?

• A)spraying the edges of the Everglades with a pesticide that will kill mosquitos
• B)developing a vaccination that would prevent the ability of the merozoites to reproduce within the host's bloodstream
• C)devising an insect repellant that would prevent the Anopheles mosquito from biting a human host
• D)All of these scenarios would have a chance of success in preventing malaria from spreading throughout the southern Everglades.

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