Explain what causes malaria and how the disease is spread?

Answer 1

Malaria is a potentially fatal tropical disease that is caused by a parasite known as Plasmodium. It is spread through the bite of an infected female mosquito. Malaria is transmitted to humans from the Anopheles mosquito. *Each year, there are approximately 515 million cases of malaria, killing between one and three million people, the majority of whom are young children in Africa. *Ninety percent of malaria-related deaths occur in Africa. Malaria is commonly associated with poverty, but is also a cause of poverty. *Malaria is one of the most common Infectious Diseases and an enormous public health problem. *Young children are more prone to getting Malaria than adults are. *Malaria is a disease which kills a child every 30 seconds across Africa.? *In Tanzania malaria is the leading killer of children. ? Symptoms of malaria are fever, shivering, joint pain, vomiting, anemia, hemoglobinuria (when your urine tturns red), retinal damage, and convulsions. The classic symptom of malaria is occurrence of sudden coldness followed by rigor (shaking) and then fever and sweating lasting four to six hours, every two days.
Malaria is a protozoan infection carried by mosquitoes. Falciparum malaria is the most common virulent type. 40% of the world's population is at risk every year.

It has killed 3+ billion people over the years and it infects 500,000 every year.

People with the infection will have chills, fever, sweats in cycles of 49 or 72 hours depending on the microbe and the cycle can last for weeks without relief.

There is a high Death Rate in the acute phase especially in kids.

Prevention: vector control, bed netting, screens, repellants, The drug of choice is

Chloroquine.

Answer 2

malaria is caused by a protozoa from the genus Plasmodium. The infected female anopheles inject the malaria parasite in your body to give you malaria. The parasite enters your liver, multiply there. Then invade your red blood cells to give you malaria.

Answer 3

Malaria is caused by Plasmodium. It is a protozoa. When the infected anopheles mosquito bites the uninfected person, it transmits the the malaria parasite to him. This person gets the malaria. When the mosquito bites the patient, it sucks the parasites. They travel to the salivary gland of the mosquito to give infection to new persons.

Answer 4

The sporozoan Plasmodium causes malaria. Mosquitoes in the genus Anopheles spread malaria when they draw blood from an infected person.