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Are people with sickle cell anemia resistant to malaria?
No they are generally resistant to malaria
Causes of resurgence of malaria in India?
Malaria parasites become resistant to drugs used to treat them. Also the mosquitoes which carry the parasites also become resistant to insecticide drugs which are used to kill them. This process is occurring in malaria hotspots worldwide.
Why are individuals that have the Ss genotype resistant to malaria?
Because their Red Cells Sickle.
Individuals heterozygous for sickle-cell anemia appear normal and are resistant to what disease?
malaria
Where in the world are the most cases of Malaria and Sickle Cell anaemia?
Malaria is common in topical ad subtropical zones. The malaria has selected the people with sickle cell anaemia. Although person with sickle cell anemia can have malaria, the carrier, or the person with sickle cell trait is resistant to malaria.
Why malaria cases are increasing?
Because mosquitos are more resistant to chemcals designed to kill them, And your gay
Why is that most black people are resistant to malarial infection?
Most of the black people from Africa and dark people from Indian subcontinent are living in malaria endemic zone, for thousands of years. So they become genetically resistant to malarial infection. ( Mother of contributor, contributor and one of his three sons never had malarial fever. Mr. Ajinya Deshmukh, who is there at Binghampton university, New York, USA has that antimalarial gene, in his blood!) Most importantly, they are immune to malaria, due to repeated attacks of malaria. White people will also become resistant to malaria, when they will live in malaria endemic zone.
Why is the spread of malaria increasing?
There has been increasing resistance of mosquitoes to DDT. The P. falciparum became resistant to chloroquine. These two problems together was responsible for increasing the cases of malaria.
Why are individuals with genotype AA prone to malaria?
They do not carry the sickle cell allele, a. Individuals that are heterozygous have the advantage of being more resistant to malaria than homozygous dominant individuals, but are not affected by the disease.
Why africans are sucseptable to malaria than any other races?
well .. its because of species specific immunity.. that is.. different races are immune to different types of disease.. Eg: just like the one you asked.. Africans are resistant to malaria but not other diseases and Indians are more resistant to Tuberculosis than other diseases.. which means.. africans can get affected to TB and Indians can get affected to malaria..Hope i made it clear..24CARAT....
What are People with Anemia resistant to?
Sickle cell anemia comes as the result of having two sickle cell chromosomes. One sickle cell chromosome makes people resistant to malaria. Unfortunately when people have two sickle cell chromosomes they can get sickle cell anemia. That makes it difficult for their blood to carry oxygen and under certain conditions makes their blood clump. The disease can be deadly. Drugs can help. It probably makes that person resistant to malaria. The sickle cell trait evolved in various places around the world where malaria is common such as Africa and Greece.
What is the desise of malaria?
Malaria is the name of a disease caused by Plasmodium, which are transmitted in to human blood by the bite of mosquitoes. Plasmodium affect the human red blood cells causing fever with chills and rigors, headache. Malaria is a major health risk in Asia, subsaharan Africa and parts of America. Malaria resistant to treatment leads to cerebral malaria that can be fatal. Plasmodium falciparum is nasty compared to P. vivax and P. malariae.
