Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus...
by mrec on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @08:07AM
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> Shakespeare mentioned it time and time again in his plays
I'm pretty sure what Shakespeare was referencing is a much more general idea prevalent in his day - that smells (not necessarily unpleasant ones) could be poisonous, and could be warded off by opposing "good" smells. This roughly coincided with an explosion of scented-good manufacturing as a cottage industry, although I'm not sure which way the arrow of causation ran there.
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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus...
by _ph_ on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @05:31AM
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Yes, but malaria isn't transmitted between humans but requires a certain mosquito to spread. So unless that mosquito reappears (which is an actual threat due to climate change), the malaria isn't randomly spreading to other countries. But the corona virus doesn't have these bariers as it spreads from humans to humans.
Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus...
by iso1210 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @10:16AM
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Yes, I guess my point was that malaria can and has existed in europe and america. It is defeated by
1) Wiping out mosquitos (DDT)
2) Limiting chance of mosquitoes biting people (aircon)
3) Limiting the population with malaria (the fewer people with malaria, the less chance of a given mosquito biting someone with malaria and thus becoming a carrier)
Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus...
by tremon on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @09:06AM
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the Romans thought it originated from bad swamp air
...which actually isn't that far-fetched for a pre-medical society to conclude, given that mosquitoes breed in warm, still waters.
Europe and the U.S. used to have Malaria. The name -- bad air -- is Latin, the Romans thought it originated from bad swamp air. Shakespeare mentioned it time and time again in his plays.