2022
Hello Local Guides,
Today is World Malaria Day. What can we do as Local Guides to fight this problem?
Being Local Guides, I think we can play a role to eliminate Malaria and make people aware of mosquito infected areas around the globe through Google Maps. What do you think Local Guides? How about Google Maps asking us, Local Guides "Are there mosquitoes here?" Giving us option to answer Heavily, Medium, Slightly, None. etc @TraciC
Here's a bit of information from Bill Gates - gatesnotes (Blog) on the issue.
What makes mosquitoes so dangerous? Despite their innocuous-sounding name—Spanish for “little fly”—they carry devastating diseases. The worst is malaria, which kills more than 600,000 people every year; another 200 million cases incapacitate people for days at a time. It threatens half of the world’s population and causes billions of dollars in lost productivity annually. Other mosquito-borne diseases include dengue fever, yellow fever, and encephalitis.
There are more than 2,500 species of mosquito, and mosquitoes are found in every region of the world except Antarctica. During the peak breeding seasons, they outnumber every other animal on Earth, except termites and ants. They were responsible for tens of thousands of deaths during the construction of the Panama Canal. And they affect population patterns on a grand scale: In many malarial zones, the disease drives people inland and away from the coast, where the climate is more welcoming to mosquitoes.
Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year. Mosquitoes kill 50,000 times as many people, but if there’s a TV channel that features Mosquito Week, I haven’t heard about it.
Source: The Blog of Bill Gates
Thank you Local Guides
