

We take them from a natural setting which they have known most of their lives, the play- ground, and put them into an alien environment, the classroom, and expect them to perform without fail. We worry more about having a perfect Power Point presentation than ensuring that all the students are focused on the learning task which is about to be presented. In this day and age of new technology, we sometimes fail to tackle the simplest of problems. Is it possible for people with sickle-cell anemia to be immune to malaria? Why or why not? This parasite uses red blood cells to reproduce. Malaria is caused by a parasite that lives in the salivary glands of the Anopheles mosquito and is passed into a human as it feeds.


