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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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How exactly does Artemisinin kill the malaria parasite?
I know it is because of artemisinins unusual peroxide bridge... but how exactly i don't know
What is the symbiotic relationship between malaria organism and human host?
This is an example of a parisitic relationship because the organism harms the host.
The best outdoor protective measures to avoid dengue and other mosquitoes are?
The best way is to avoid mosquito bites. Use of spray/coils/repellant creams in the house and sleeping under mosquito nets. Use of nets in the doors and windows or any opening in the house, and spaying of ponds and stagnant water around the area will also help as it prevents breeding of the mosquitos
Are British people are affected Malaria?
You won't catch malaria in Britain because we don't have mosquitos but British people can be affected by it if they have been to a country where it can be caught.
What is the CPT code for malaria vaccine?
The CPT code for the malaria vaccine will vary depending on which country you're in. However, the CPT code is usually one of the following codes: 9940 or 99406
How long does malaria stay in a persons body or blood if treated on the onset?
Once a person has it it never leaves the blood.
What is the habitat of malaria?
Malaria lives in mosquito's found in greater part of Africa, Middle east, South-east Asia, and South America.
What are the similarities of a tapeworm and malaria?
In both the diseases, fever may start with slow onset. Patients suffering from both of them complain of headache. Patients suffering from both will have mild spenomegaly at some stage of fever. ( Usually at the end of week.) Both fevers have leucopenia in peripheral smear. Fever will never rise above 104 degree Fahrenheit in typhoid fever. And patient of typhoid fever will get 'toxic' in about 7 days of fever. At 104 degree Fahrenheit temperature he will need assistance of two persons to go to toilet as against patient of malarial fever. Patient of malarial fever can walk to longer distance without assistance. The experienced doctor can tell from the face of the patient that he is suffering from typhoid fever or not.
How soon do symptoms of malaria appear?
From the NHS website:
"Symptoms of malaria usually appear 10-15 days after you are bitten. However, depending on the type of parasite you are infected with, it can take a year for symptoms to show."
What kind of food should people eat when they have malaria?
You can take the normal diet. You can eat, what ever is liked by you. You should take sugar solution, every two hours to prevent hypoglycemia. You should take milk and boiled eggs for proteins and green leafy vegetables to get the folic acid.
What does malaria do to the host?
Malaria is a disease which involves a parasitic organism (a type of paramecium) that lives inside mosquitoes for part of its life-cycle and inside human beings for another part of its life-cycle; it is the mosquitoes and the human beings which are serving as host organisms to the parasite. So no, malaria is not a host.
How easily can malaria spread?
very,
Well over 300 million people around the world suffer from Malaria and in Africa, someone is bitten every second by a mosquito infected with Malaria. (:
Where was Malaria contracted during World War 1?
My great grandfather went to India with his regiment during WW1 and contracted Malaria there.
What research has been done on malaria?
A new longer-lasting vaccine shows promise, attacking the toxin of the parasite and therefore lasts longer than the few weeks of those vaccines currently used for malaria prevention.
Malaria is actually caused by a protist that belongs to the genus of Plasmodium.
no, malaria is not inheritable. it's a fever and disease that was caught by mosquitoes and other bugs biting you and after contact by infected humans, but in my social studies it is not inheritable as parent to offspring.
What is the size and structure of the malaria parasite?
The various subgenera are first distinguished on the basis of the morphology of the mature gametocytes. Those of subgenus Haemamoeba are round or oval while those of the subgenera Giovannolaia, Huffia and Novyella are elongated. These latter genera are distinguished on the basis of the size of the schizonts: Giovannolaia and Huffiahave large schizonts while those of Novyella are small.
What is the total number of deaths from malaria?
Most malaria related deaths occur in Africa. Most at risk are children below the age of five and pregnant women.
WHO places at about 1.272 million deaths per year world wide in 2002, according to the WHO World Health Report 2004.
Due to various under reporting and malaria related complications the actual number is estimated to be as high as 3 million deaths per year. "Conquering The Intolerable Burden Of Malaria: What's New, What's Needed: A Summary" Joel G. Breman, Martin S. Alilio, And Anne Mills.
Why are children more prone to getting malaria than adults?
Because children eats anything that they come across and they also like playing in gardens where most insects are
The protzoal parasite that causes Malaria are
Plasmodium Vivax
Plasmodium Falciparum
Plasmodium Malariae
Plasmodium Ovale
It is an intracellular parasite that inhabits the Red Blood Cells and the liver.
P. Falciparum cause Cerebral Malaria.
What type of microbe causes malaria?
'Protozoans' is the term usually used to talk about the protists that cause malaria in humans or in other vertebrate erythrocytes. Protozoa belong to a large group of eukaryotic organisms that are single-celled. These are usually microscopic and include amoeba, ciliates, flagellates and sporozoans. In malaria, the protozoans can also be called 'malaria parasites.'
Transmission:
The sporozoan protozoa that cause malaria are transmitted through a mosquito feeding upon the blood of an infected host and ingesting a number of these parasites. The protozoa develop within the mosquito and are secreted through its saliva to infect other potential hosts when bitten. Once inside a human (or other vertebrate erythrocyte hosts), they can spend a protracted period (from weeks or months to, potentially, years) inside the host's liver and spleen, where they reproduce in the blood (specifically, within the red blood cells, erythrocytes).
Malaria is a vector-borne infectious disease caused by any of a number of protozoans spread by the female Anopheles mosquito. Only Anopheles mosquitoes can transmit malaria, and they must have been infected through a previous blood meal taken from an infected host. It is common in tropical and subtropical climates in endemic areas including much of Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Americas. These locations have significant amounts of rain fall and consistent hot temperatures. These warm, consistent temperatures and moisture provide mosquitoes with the environment they need to breed continuously year round.
Scientific names:
The causative organisms include protists of the genus Plasmodium. The three most common organisms in malaria infections are P. vivax, P. ovale, and P. falciparum. Falciparum malaria is the most serious of the three, causing about 80% of all cases of human malaria and 90% of deaths, and is becoming more frequently drug resistant. Another less common type of Plasmodium that can cause malaria is P. malariae. A fifth type, P. knowlesi, is not thought to infect humans.
Prevention:
To prevent the disease, a person in the areas where these mosquitoes live should reduce the number of bites they receive. Mosquito netting used around beds can reduce the number of mosquitoes and bites and mosquito repellents also help.
Symptoms:
Symptoms of malaria are fever, shivering, joint pain, vomiting, anemia, hemoglobinuria (when your urine turns red), retinal damage, and convulsions. The classic symptom of malaria is occurrence of sudden coldness followed by rigors (shaking), then fever and sweating lasting four to six hours, which occurs every two days.
Other facts:
- Plasmodium falciparum - the common African type affects 80 - 85% of malaria patients, and is the most severe form of malaria. P. falciparum is also called a 'malign tertian malaria', malign means "evil", and this is the type which most often kills humans.
- Plasmodium vivax - Milder than Falciparum, is the second most common species to cause the disease malaria. It is also called 'benign tertian malaria', benign means "good", and this type usually doesn't kill humans.
- 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. Young children are more prone to getting Malaria than adults are.
- 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.
- Malaria is a disease which kills a child every 30 seconds across Africa.
Who normally gets the illness malaria?
Malaria infects between 300 and 500 million people every year in Africa, India, southeast Asia, the Middle East, Oceania, and Central and South America. A 2002 report stated that malaria kills 2.7 million people each year.
What is the name of female mosquito which causes malaria?
Sir Ronald Ross, who was born in India and British by nationality, discovered that female anopheles mosquito causes malaria. He called that mosquito as a mosquito with dappled wings, as he was not a zoologist.
