SEED - Health and Safety

Malaria is a serious illness common in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Caused by a parasite carried by mosquitoes, malaria sickens more than 250 million people each year. Approximately 80% of those who contract malaria are young children. At least 880,000 people die from the disease annually; most of those who die are children under age five.

Medicine has been practiced in one form or another since prehistoric times. Every culture had had its healers. Now, science-based medicine dominates. But how did these modern medical practices develop? What came before? How do these older traditions fit into the history of medicine? Do they still have place in the world of medicine?

Modern methods of traveling have really changed the world. Trips that once took days now take hours; ones that took hours can now take minutes. We have progressed from traveling on foot, to riding on horses or donkeys or in wheeled vehicles pulled by these animals, to pedaling bicycles, and to driving or riding in motorized vehicles such as motorcycles, cars, buses, or trucks. Along with all these vehicles came roads for them to travel on.