Malaria

Malaria can be lethal, for example, malaria caused by the African strain Plasmodium falciparum can cause cerebral malaria which leads coma and often death. Although well over 1 million people are killed each year by the parasite, most cases of malaria are not fatal and often very treatable.

The lethality often depends upon the exact strain which one has been infected with and the chance effects of the strain, for example, where it sequesters (gathers). Sequestration in the brain can often be fatal and sequestration in the placenta can lead to the death of unborn babies. Blood clots can form when the parasite sequesters in the blood vessels and the fever itself can prove detrimental.

Malaria is a treatable disease, however if it is left untreated or treated with improper drugs; the infected person will have this disease for their entire life. Occasionally, the parasite will be resistant to the drug which will leave the patient as being infected. Unfortunately, a common theme with malaria patients is having them being treated with the proper drug but at a immiscible dose, or the drug is taken for long enough. However, once a patient is properly diagnosed and treated they will become healthy and the malaria will be completely eliminated.

Staying away from places that have malaria and taking pills to prevent malaria.

One can help reduce the spread of malaria by not allowing favorable conditions in which mosquitoes can breed, hatch and then develop from larvae to adult. Since mosquitoes are the number one carrier of malaria worldwide, preventing the bugs from multiplying would be a safe and effective way to progress in eradication of malaria. Several NGO's have malaria prevention programs in effect.

You can prevent being bitten by mosquitoes by putting bug spray on your body and wear clothes that cover your arms and legs

Getting rid of mosquito breeding grounds, use of mosquito nets, anti-malarial drugs, proper hygiene, bug spray are all proactive methods to reduce risk.

Malaria can affect people in many ways. The symptoms are flu-like symptoms, fever chills, muscle aches, headaches, nausea, cough, vomiting, diarrhea, sweating, and, jaundice. If you have a more severe case the symptoms above can become more severe, internal bleeding, shock kidney and liver failure, nervous system problems, and a coma. It is fatal if not treated quickly.Even with treatment, about 15%-20% die of Malaria. Malaria is a parasite carried by mosquitoes. Plasmodium falciparum is the parasite that can wreck havoc on your body. 2 million deaths are malaria-caused each year and most of these "incidences" are in Africa. :D

Malaria is a disease which is spread by female mosquitoes of the Anopheles genus passing along parasites. Though rare, it can be spread in other ways too such as through blood transfusions, needles, and saliva. The parasites are by eukaryotic protists of the Plasmodium genus. Most of the exact species responsible in humans are P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. knowlesi, P. malariae, and P. ovale. While P. vivax causes the most malaria infections, P. falciparum cases the most deaths. There seem to be a few other species of the parasite which humans share with certain monkeys. Except for P. knowlesi, the ones humans share with monkeys are of limited concern.

The parasites first infect the liver and then live and breed within red blood cells. This causes symptoms which continue to compound themselves until death. Typically within 8 to 25 days of infection, signs and symptoms begin. They include fever, sweating, headache, joint pain, rigor, chills, shivering, hemolytic anemia, vomiting, retinal damage, jaundice, convulsions, and hemoglobinuria (excessive hemoglobin in the urine). The symptoms are usually cyclical in nature, going from chills to rigidity and then to fever, occurring every 2-3 days, or a continuous lower grade fever. In children, there may also be abnormal posturing and brain damage. Neurological impairment is usually permanent.

Without treatment, death may occur. Severe cases progress to coma and even death. As many as one million people throughout the world die every year due to Malaria. It is widespread in subtropical and tropical regions around the equator. This includes Central and South America, Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

There are more diseases spread by insects than can fit in this answer, but two are notable for their kill rate.

Firstly the 'Black Death', the plague which killed a third of the population of Europe in the 17th century was spread by fleas which lived on rats and secondly malaria, spread by mosquitoes, kills millions of people every year in tropical areas.

1. A cause of a lack of B12 can be mainly from three sources. The more common one is through not consuming enough. B12 is almost exclusively found (in enough amounts) in meat, shellfish, milk, and eggs. These foods tend to be off-limits to vegetarians and vegens, which can cause an insufficent amount of B12 being consumed in their diets. A less-likely reason is due to a parasite. Some parasites and worms live off of B12 and other essential vitamins to survive. An even less-likely reason is through a genetic abnormality where B12 is not able to be broken down and used by the body properly.

2. Nitrous oxide.

3. A B12 depletion and deficiency can also be caused by an auto immune condition affecting the stomach. This causes the destruction of the stomach lowering stomach acid or lowering production of intrinsic factor. Necessary to bond to b12 to be absorbed in the small intestines. Some prescription medicines may inhibit B12 absorption or lessen the amount you have in the body (antacids, laxatives, steroid meds, aspirin, diuretics, birth control pills, high doses of Vitamin C). Stomach or intestine surgeries can prevent proper b12 absorption as it may lower stomach acid, or intrinsic factor, or lessen absorption in the small intestines.

You can also develop a folic acid deficiency that can also be caused by certain meds such as (barbiturates, Tegretol, Depakote, Zarontin, Celontin, Primidone, Dilantin, Fosphenytoin, Ibuprofen, Anaprox, Motrin, Naprosyn, Naprelan, Pamprin, Voltaren). B12 and Folic Acid work hand in hand. Thus if you have a b12 depletion or deficiency you may also have a folic acid deficiency. If you supplement b12, it may be a good idea to also supplement with folic acid...Or make sure you b12 supplement contains also folic acid.

Other conditions that have been contributed to b12 deficiency are (alcoholism, heavy metal levels such as mercury or lead, pregnancy).

People with aid/hiv, multiple sclerosis, Bells Palsy, Parkinson's, ALS, Muscular Distrophy, fibromyalgia, and some leukemias have reported b12 deficiencies.

No, you don't need vaccinations when visiting Cape Town.

Yes. Infection rate is about 8 people per 100,000 inhabitants (about 9280 cases per year). But you should be aware that statistically speaking, it is about the same rate you will find in the United States (0.45 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, or about 1,500 infections per year).

1) let us control mosquito menace and let us control malaria . 2)you control mosquito and we control malaria . 3) let us get on the mood of euphoria . let us not have even one case of malaria.

It was confirmed by tests in hospital on July 5th 2010.

She picked up the disease whilst on holiday in Tanzania with Derek Hough.

She had Falciparum Malaria.

She was treated at UCL Hospital in central London.

Cheryl recovered from the disease in time for the Judges' Houses segment of the 2010 series of The X Factor.

It is characterized by recurrent symptoms of chills, fever, and an enlarged spleen.

Malaria is endemic in many parts of the world and almost 300,000,000 people suffer from it. About 500,000 to 800,000 die because of it. Mostly in Africa and below 5 years old children. It is one of the major cause of morbidity and mortality, in tropical countries. This parasite now belongs to protozoa family but probably evolved from plant kingdom. It is transmitted by bite of infected Anabel's mosquito. In case of amoeba it belongs to protozoa and entmoeba hystolytica is pathogenic in man. It is transmitted by fecal-oral route. Active form is not infective. There are many people carrier of this protozoa. They are chronic carrier. They pass cyst in feces and ingested by victim due to poor hygiene. African sleeping sickness is transmitted by infected tsetse fly. As name suggesed in is common in most of the sub-saharan countries.

There is no relationship between RA and Malaria. Malaria is a disease that involves a parasite usually introduces by mosquito's It was found that a malaria drug Plaquinill has an effect on the immune system that proved helpful to some RA sufferers.

Some famous people who have died from malaria are baseball player, Joe Cassidy; Emilio Jacinto; the Holy Roman Emperor, Otto III; and Trevor Madondo. Others on the list are Karl von Muller, John Hamilton Morgan, Conrad IV of Germany, and William Shelley.

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Same way people always have caught malaria - through getting bitten by mosquitoes carrying the disease.

No, malaria is amosquito-bourne disease and the Plague was carried by rats. They are caused by different microbes too. Although both diseases were spread by insects (fleas for the Plague and mosquito for Malaria.

King tut had a crumbling foot and the staffs in his tomb was actually his walking sticks.

He also had a badly broken leg no one nows how he got it some scholars think a hunting accident and some say he got it in battle. He also had cerebral malaria which is the worst malaria ever known to man. Obviously his last days of his life wasn't good

Influenza is a microbe disease. Edward Cullen had it!! :O (Twilight)

Plasmodium is a sporozoan that causes Malaria.

Plasmodium is not a bacteria to be classified whether gram negative or gram positive. It is a genus of parasitic protists. Infection by these organisms is known as malaria.

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Back in England, the colonists didn't have to face malaria. Therefore, their immune systems haven't built up an antidote to it. The got malaria from the mosquitoes.