FUMIHIKO HIRAI🐝KADOKAWAすごすぎる図鑑昆虫/TokyoBugBoys

Found this in my backyard, what should I do?

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page. It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection. Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do. Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades. The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water. It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left. The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero. When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

有明海のワラスボの恵み。生物多様性の供給サービスと文化的サービス。エイリアンエナジーは何度か飲んだことあるけどエイリアンふりかけは初めて。今度ふりかけてみたい。

「人食い」 タマムシを求め海岸の近くの緑地へ遠征した時のこと。 後ろを歩いていた同行者が突然「痛い痛い！」と叫んだ。振り返ると必死に手首を抑えている。「ど、どうした！？」 . . . . . 彼は一匹のテントウムシに襲われていた🐞 まあ肉食だし...。しかし弱い、弱すぎるぞあしかにゃん。

こんな感じでした 指入れたらぱっくりきれそう

【東京都では51年ぶり2例目となる貴重な卜骨を発見】卜骨の同定と報告に関わらせていただいた荒川区の遺跡発掘調査報告書が刊行されました。 調査員さん「出土した骨を見てもらえますか？」 私「はーい。鹿の肩甲骨ですね〜。ん？え？ﾁｮｯﾄﾏｯﾃ⋯これ卜骨ですよ！」 調査員さん「えっ!?（驚）」

「今、シカが大変なことになってるって本当？」 可愛くて、日本人にとって身近なシカだが、日本ではシカが増えすぎたことで色んな分野で困ったことになっているんだ！ どんなことが起きているの？原因は？そして、どうしたらいいのか調べてみました！