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Which continent has a malaria crisis?
Africa has a big malaria crisis right now. It also occurs in South America and Southern Asia. Malaria is a deadly disease spread by mosquitoes that infects red blood cells.
What is malaria and how is it treated?
Malaria is a disease that destroys red blood cells.
What microrganisam cases malaria?
Malaria is caused by protozoa - Plasmodium species. There are at least four malarial parasites; P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malaria and P. falciparum. P. falciparum can invade red blood cells of all ages, may also be drug-resistant and is responsible for most severe and acute life-threatening malignant tertian malaria with highest mortality. Plasmodium, in form of sporozoites, travels in blood to the liver and spleen, where it reproduces and infects red blood cells.
What does malaria affect?
Mostly it affects the red blood cells.
What malaria affects?
Mostly it affects the red blood cells.
How does your kidneys fight diseases like malaria?
You have breakdown of red blood cells in malaria. your kidney produces the hormone called as erythropoitin. This helps in formation of red blood cells. This way kidney helps in fighting malaria for longer period.
Is malaria a yeast infection?
No. Malaria is a serious fever caused by a protozoan parasite that invades the red blood cells.
What type of disease is spread by mosquitoes and affects red blood cells?
Malaria
What factors contribute to anaemia in malaria?
One stage of the malaria bacterium incubates and multiplies within red blood cells. When this process is complete the red cells burst and release their bacterial contents into the blood stream. As red blood cells are required by the body to transport oxygen this loss of them will result in anaemia.
Why does shivering occur in malaria?
The cyclical pattern of malaria symptoms (fever, chills, fever, chills) is due to the time-regulated bursting of merozoites from red blood cells. The merozoites (a stage in the malaria parasite's development), burst from red blood cells in a cyclical pattern at a time which is specific to the species of malaria parasite. The fever is the body's immune response to the sudden high concentration of merozoites in the bloodstream. The chills are due to the invasion of new red blood cells by the merozoites.
Malaria affects which body part?
The blood cells. They burst open and make you very sick.
How do mosquito carry malaria?
Malaria parasites divide in your red blood cells. They are liberated from there, to invade the fresh red blood cells. This cycle continues to give you bouts of malarial fever. Some of the parasites get converted into male and female gametes. When an anopheles mosquito bites you, he sucks some male and female malaria gametes. They get combined in the body of mosquito to form the zygotes. These zygotes eventually travel to the salivary gland of the mosquito. There from they are injected in the blood of next host, before the blood is sucked, to give him malaria. Malaria parasites get multiplied in the liver cells of the host, before they attack the red blood cells.
