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Malaria
Malaria is a infectious disease that is transmitted through the bite of the female mosquito. All questions about symptoms, causes, prevention, treatment, and history can be found here.
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Who created the cure for malaria?
there is no cure for malaria, however, it can be treated with doses of quinine, also to be used as a preventive measure.
What were the white and tan pills given for malaria in Vietnam?
I once heard the US was using us as guinea pigs and said they never gave us those little white pills in 1965
Also heard a rumor it was something they used for leprosy
What famous pharaoh of Egypt died of complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria?
King Tutankhamun - Abstract from Journal of the American Medical Association
Ancestry and Pathology in King Tutankhamun's Family
Zahi Hawass, PhD; Yehia Z. Gad, MD; Somaia Ismail, PhD; Rabab Khairat, MSc; Dina Fathalla, MSc; Naglaa Hasan, MSc; Amal Ahmed, BPharm; Hisham Elleithy, MA; Markus Ball, MSc; Fawzi Gaballah, PhD; Sally Wasef, MSc; Mohamed Fateen, MD; Hany Amer, PhD; Paul Gostner, MD; Ashraf Selim, MD; Albert Zink, PhD; Carsten M. Pusch, PhD
JAMA. 2010;303(7):638-647.
Context The New Kingdom in ancient Egypt, comprising the 18th, 19th, and 20th dynasties, spanned the mid-16th to the early 11th centuries BC. The late 18th dynasty, which included the reigns of pharaohs Akhenaten and Tutankhamun, was an extraordinary time. The identification of a number of royal mummies from this era, the exact relationships between some members of the royal family, and possible illnesses and causes of death have been matters of debate.
Objectives To introduce a new approach to molecular and medical Egyptology, to determine familial relationships among 11 royal mummies of the New Kingdom, and to search for pathological features attributable to possible murder, consanguinity, inherited disorders, and infectious diseases.
Design From September 2007 to October 2009, royal mummies underwent detailed anthropological, radiological, and genetic studies as part of the King Tutankhamun Family Project. Mummies distinct from Tutankhamun's immediate lineage served as the genetic and morphological reference. To authenticate DNA results, analytical steps were repeated and independently replicated in a second ancient DNA laboratory staffed by a separate group of personnel. Eleven royal mummies dating from circa 1410-1324 BC and suspected of being kindred of Tutankhamun and 5 royal mummies dating to an earlier period, circa 1550-1479 BC, were examined.
Main Outcome Measures Microsatellite-based haplotypes in the mummies, generational segregation of alleles within possible pedigree variants, and correlation of identified diseases with individual age, archeological evidence, and the written historical record.
Results Genetic fingerprinting allowed the construction of a 5-generation pedigree of Tutankhamun's immediate lineage. The KV55 mummy and KV35YL were identified as the parents of Tutankhamun. No signs of gynecomastia and craniosynostoses (eg, Antley-Bixler syndrome) or Marfan syndrome were found, but an accumulation of malformations in Tutankhamun's family was evident. Several pathologies including Köhler disease II were diagnosed in Tutankhamun; none alone would have caused death. Genetic testing for STEVOR, AMA1, or MSP1 genes specific for Plasmodium falciparum revealed indications of malaria tropica in 4 mummies, including Tutankhamun's. These results suggest avascular bone necrosis in conjunction with the malarial infection as the most likely cause of death in Tutankhamun. Walking impairment and malarial disease sustained by Tutankhamun is supported by the discovery of canes and an afterlife pharmacy in his tomb.
Conclusion Using a multidisciplinary scientific approach, we showed the feasibility of gathering data on Pharaonic kinship and diseases and speculated about individual causes of death.
Author Affiliations: Supreme Council of Antiquities, Cairo, Egypt (Dr Hawass and Mr Elleithy); National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt (Drs Gad, Ismail, and Amer and Mss Hasan and Ahmed); Ancient DNA Laboratory, Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt (Drs Gad and Ismail and Mss Fathalla, Khairat, Hasan, and Ahmed); Institute of Human Genetics, Division of Molecular Genetics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany (Ms Khairat, Mr Ball, and Dr Pusch); Learning Resource Center, Kasr Al Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt (Drs Gaballah and Fateen and Ms Wasef); Department of Radiodiagnostics, Central Hospital Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy (Dr Gostner); Department of Radiology, Kasr Al Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt (Dr Selim); and Institute for Mummies and the Iceman, EURAC, Bolzano, Italy (Dr Zink).
Virus does not cause malaria. Malaria is caused by a protozoa from the genus Plasmodium.
What Which of the following diseases is not explained by germ theory malaria HIV cancer or the flu?
Cancer
How did they cure malaria in Medieval Times?
They didn't. People died from malaria and they didn't know what it was or caused by.
How do you know when malaria is cured?
When your fever has responded to antimalarial drugs, you are taken as cured of malaria. Primaquine removes the parasite from your liver, but then the parasite is not generally removed from liver, when you are resident of the endemic area. If you are from malaria free area or have got falciparum infection, then primaquine course will cure you of malaria.
Is maria visible to the naked eye?
No malaria is not visible to the naked eye. Malarial parasites are microscopic and infect red blood cells. We require a blood smear and special stain to see these parasites in the red blood cells of infected patients, under a light microscope.
I hope your question was about malaria, and not maria.
What does malaria do to animals?
malaria is an infectious disease.
It affects mainly mammals but can also infect birds, reptiles, and other species.
It can even infect plants.
No No it is not because it killed my dog and more than 1 million people died Because of it Its True No it is not because it killed my dog and more than 1 million people died Because of it Its True
Why a person having malarial parasite does not shows symptoms of disease?
Some peoples (ie tribes/families) who have lived in malaria infested regions have developed a natural partial immunity to the parasite (by a process of natural selection and evolution) such people may be infected by the parasite but do not develop full blown malaria because their immune system keeps the parasite in check.
Note, the danger in this is that such people act as the source of malaria affecting others. The mosquito has to bite someone with malaria FIRST then go on to bite a SECOND person. This gives malaria to the SECOND person. Obviously people carrying the malaria parasite but not ill do not go and get treated for malaria (have the parasite in their bodies killed). They therefore act as a hidden reservoir for infection.
Which is odd man out between plague malaria measles AIDS cold?
Malaria. It is caused by a parasite and is not contagious from human to human.
Which part of the body is damaged by Malaria?
Malaria does not damage any specific part of your body. But is cases haemolytic anaemia. Liver and spleen enlargement. Due to bouts of fever, patient becomes debilitated. He can die of falciparum malaria.
Where does the word mosquito originate from?
The insect mosquito and their native language. Joking, mosquito means little fly in Spanish and Portuguese. The word evolved from the original Latin word musca for fly.
Can malaria be spread from person to person?
Yes Malaria can be transmitted from person to person, one way is by a mom having a baby and then when the baby comes out the mom and baby would both be infected, but this is very rare! Another way it can be transmitted from person to person is if a needle is used by multiple patients then the needle would take place of the mosquito bite, And the infected blood would be on the needle so when the next patient gets the needle in their arm the Malaria organisms would get into the next patients blood stream and infect the patient! But these two cases are both rare especially since needles are cleaned before used on another patient. And the moms are checked to see if their bloodstream is clean before they give birth.
malaria is transmitted to humans form the Anophelesmosquito. Once the disease enters the blood stream the protozoan target red blood cells and cause them to burst simeaultaneously releasing millions more protozoan.
