SOME OF THE BENEFITS ARE: THERE ARE MANY COMMENSAL PROTIST THAT LIVE IN THE DIGESTIVE TRACTS OF HUMANS

AND ANIMALS THAT HUMANS EAT. FOR EXAMPLE; CATTLE COULD NOT DIGEST THE CELLULOSE IN THE HAY AND GRASS THEY EAT WITHOUT THE AID OF COMMENSAL PROTIST IN THEIR DIGESTIVE TRACT.

ANOTHER BENEFIT IS SINCE PROTISTS MAKE UP MUCH OF THE PLANKTON IN THE OCEAN, THEY HELP TO SUPPORT FOOD CHAINS.

 ALSO,

SINCE PROTISTS ARE THE SINGLE LARGEST GROUP OF PHOTOSYNTHESIZERS ON THE PLANET, WE ALL BREATHE OXYGEN, FROM THE GAS THAT PROTIST PRODUCE.

 ANOTHER

BENEFICT IS THAT PROTIST ARE ALSO DETRITIVORES, THAT MEANS THAT THEY RECYCLE IMPORTANT CHEMICALS, SUCH AS NITROGEN CARBON AND PHOSPHORUS IN THE ENVIRONMENT.

DISEASE: AFRICAN SLEEPING SICKNESS DESCRIPTION OF ILLNES: FEVER, WEAKNESS, LETHARGY PROTIST: TRYPANOSOMA GAMBIENSE, TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE HOW THE DISEASE IS TRANSMITTED: BITE FROM INFECTED TSETSE FLY

DISEASE: AMEBIC DYSENTERY DESCRIPTION OF ILLNESS: BLOODY DIARRHEA, VOMITING, EXTREMELY STRONG STOMACH CRAMPS, FEVER PROTISTS: ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA HOW THE DISEASE IS TRANSMITTED: CONTAMINATED FOOD OR WATER

 DISEASE:

GIARDIASIS DESCRIPTION OF ILLNESS: CRAMPS, NAUSEA, DIARRHEA, VOMITING PROTIST: GIARDIA LAMBLIA HOW THE DISEASE IS TRANSMITTED: CONTAMINATED FOOD OR WATER

 DISEASE:

MALARIA DESCRIPTION OF ILLNESS: FEVER, CHILLS, SWEATS PROTIST: PLASMODIUM SP. HOW THE DISEASE IS TRANSMITTED: BITE FROM INFECTED MOSQUITO

DISEASE: TOXOPLASMOSIS DESCRIPTION OF ILLNESS: PRIMARY DANGER IS FETAL INFECTION; CAN CAUSE CONVULSIONS, BRAIN DAMAGE, BLINDNESS, AND DEAD IN FETUSES PROTIST: TOXOPLASMA GONDII HOW THE DISEASE IS TRANSMITTED: CONTACT WITH INFECTED CATS OR IMPORPERLY COOKED MEAT.

MALARIA IS ONE OF THE MOST DEADLY DISEASE IN HUMANS. THE SYMPTOMS INCLUDE SEVERE CHILLS, FEVER, SWEATING, CONFUSION, AND GREAT THIRST. VICTIMS DIE OF ANEMIA, KIDNEY FAILURE, OR BRAIN DAMAGE UNLESS THE DISEASE IS TREATED. MALARIA IS CAUSED BY SEVERAL SPECIES OF PLASMODIUM AND IS SPREAD BY THE BITE OF CERTAIN MOSQUITOES.

THE FIRST STAGE:

AN INFECTED MOSQUITO BITES A HUMAN, IT INJECTS PLASMODIUM CALLED SPOROZOITE. THE SPOROZOITE INFECT THE LIVER CELLS AND DEVELOP INTO MEROZOITE.

THE SECOND STAGE: THE MEROZOITES INFECT RED BLOOD CELLS, AND DIVIDE RAPIDLY. IN ABOUT 48 HOURS, THE RED BLOOD CELLS RUPTURE, RELEASING MORE MEROZOITES AND TOXIC SUBTANCES. THIS BEGINS A CYCLE OF FEVER AND CHILLS THAT CHARACTERIZES MALARIA.

 THE THIRD STAGE: SOME OF THE

MEROZOITES DEVELOP INTO GAMETES. WHEN THE INFECTED PERSON IS BITTEN BY A MOSQUITO, THE GAMETES ARE EATEN BY A MOSQUITO, THE FEMALE AND MALE GAMETES FUSE TO FORM ZYGOTES, THIS DIVIDE MANY TIMES TO FORM SPOROZOITES, WHICH MIGRATE TO THE SALIVARY GLANDS OF THE MOSQUITO

THE REMEDY TO CURE MALARIA IS CALLED QUININE, IS A CHEMICAL DERIVED FROM THE BARK OF THE CINCHONA TREE THAT IS FOUND ONLY IN SOUTH AMERICA. DERIVATIVES OF QUININE, ARE CHLOROQUINE, AND PRIMAQUINE, THAT ARE USE TO TREAT MALARIA.

IN ORDER TO CONTROLLED MALARIA, WE CAN REDUCE MOSQUITO POPULATIONS, BY SPRAYING INSECTICIDES, REDUCING MOSQUITO BREEDING PLACES, AND INTRODUCING ANIMALS THAT WILL EAT MOSQUITO LARVAE, SUCH AS MOSQUITO FISH.