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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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Why do you get leukemia?

From there parents or other people in the family tree. The Doctors realize it until later reactions occur.

Did soldiers bring home malaria after World War 1?

YES

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Depends on where "here" is and where the soldiers served. In areas like Macedonia, Gallipoli, Africa and India, soldiers dropped like flies. About 7 out of every 1000 American soldiers, based in the US came down with malaria.

In 1918, over 25,000 British soldiers were sent home with chronic malaria. This means they were plagued with it for the rest of their lives.

How does malaria affect the eye balls?

Malaria does not attack your eye balls. Your eye balls are affected by the drug for malaria. Chloroquine is a very toxic drug. It affects power of accommodation of your eye balls. Some times the patient goes blind temporarily. He needs to be carried to toilet by family member for few days.

How does malaria affect homeostasis?

Malaria is a disease brought about by a msquitoe as a vector of the virus. The Malaria Falciparum strain particularly exhibits Cerebral malaria where the neurologic functions are affected in the person. The symptoms usually include febrile seizures, changes in consciousness and paralysis.
This typically happens in Plasmodium falciparum infection. When the malaria advances, the parasites affect the red blood cells on large scale. These infected red blood cells clog the capillaries of brain. So the blood supply of he brain is adversely affected and patient goes in coma. This condition is called as cerebral malaria. You have to take it as a medical emergency. High mortality is associated with this condition.

When did malaria break out?

1986 and malaria is a miskito that goes in your blood an you have to go to the hospital.

What do you think people with malaria often have jaundice?

People with Malaria often have Jaundice because the destruction of the red blood cells that Malaria cause's can cause Jaundice.

Did malaria kill settlers in Jamestown?

Yes. They built their settlement/fort on a marsh, so there were many puddles in the marsh. Musquitoes tend to lay their eggs in water puddles. These bugs were everywhere. They carried a parasite/disease called malaria. There was no one to help these colonists infected because they brought people of the wrong occupations. Many died from this disease.

Why is malaria difficult to treat?

Malaria is a single-celled protozoan parasite and is not a bacterium. This means it does not have cell walls unlike bacteria. Penicillin and other beta-lactam antibiotics kill bacteria by stopping the repair and remodeling of the bacterial cell wall through inhibition of peptidoglycan synthesis, which is necessary to maintain the cell wall.

Other classes of antibiotics, particularly tetracyclines, however, can work against malaria because they target a function that is present in both bacteria and malaria parasites.

Source: I am a scientist who studies antimalarial drugs.

How are malaria and dengue spread?

Mosquito is a vector for both the diseases. Anopheles mosquito spreads the malaria and culex mosquito spreads the dengue fever.

How can malaria be cured?

It will be hard to completely stop. Malaria is a preventable and treatable disease. The problem is that many parts of the world don't have the access to the necessary medication. It means many people die needlessly. So the way to reduce it is to get those medications to the people that need it.

What are the symptoms of the disease malaria?

The pathognomonic sign of malaria is stepladder like fever with chills. Some symptoms of malaria are chills, headache, fatigue and muscle-aches.

Where is malaria common?

According to CDC, approximately 1,500â??2,000 cases of malaria are reported each year in the United States, almost all in recent travelers. Reported malaria cases reached a 40-year high of 1,925 in 2011.

How do mosquitoes give malaria by biting?

Mosquito gets malaria parasite from the patient of malaria. Once infected, mosquito will carry the disease for life time. When mosquito bites you, it injects an anaesthetic chemical in the body of the host. During this injection, it injects the malaria parasites, in the body of host.

When was malaria first discovered?

Hippocrates, a physician born in ancient Greece was the first to describe manifestations of the disease and relate them to the time of year and area where the patients lived when contracting the disease. However, the discovery of the protozoal cause of malaria wasn't discovered until 1889 by Alphonse Laveran.

Who can get malaria?

You can get malaria at any point, but if you have sicle cell disease you are more or less protected against it. Do you even know what it is because it's in completely the wrong section? It has nothing to do with pregnancy or sex, although if you are planning to sex in a swamp it is in the right place.

How can you treat typhoid dengue malaria together?

It is very common practice in developing countries to treat the typhoid fever as a case of malaria, specially in the first week. You tell patient that he has malaria. He does not respond to your antimalarial treatment. Then you have no option but to tell the patient that he has got both malaria and typhoid at the same time. The fact is that typhoid is usually difficult to diagnose in the first week of fever. It is always better to rule out the malarial fever by giving the antimalarial treatment in first week of febrile illness.

How does malaria affect Africans?

It affects the people of Africa because the hot weather is perfect for the survival of mosquitoes which spread the disease, and there is little treatment available in many places as little education. Also people can't afford prevention methods such as repellent or nets.

Who were some famous people diagnosed with malaria?

This could never be determined as the malaria parasite and the mosquitos that spread the disease long predate the existence of modern humans (and likely predate the existence of all primates and may even predate the dinosaurs!).

In other words, humans and malaria have coexisted and coevolved as long as there have been humans. This long predates any recorded history or written documents, which would be necessary to give you an answer.

Why are malaria infections in Africa found in epidemic proportions?

People with a sickle-cell gene are resistant, but not immune, to malaria. African people, who were greatly exposed to malaria, were more likely to survive malaria with sickle-cell genes, so the survivors passed it on to their children. Not all African people have sickle-cell genes.

What is the primary method to avoid malaria infection?

There are a few different things that one can do to try and prevent malaria. There are medications that one can take to prevent malaria although some of these are becoming resistant to the disease. One should also wear mosquito repellent and try to avoid areas that are close to standing water where mosquitoes tend to frequent.

How is malaria and sickle cells related?

Sickle cell anemia cause red blood cells to be shaped like sickles. malaria can't enter these cells which gives the person an immunity to malaria.

What human system does malaria affect?

Malaria is caused by a parasite called Plasmodium, which is transmitted via the bites of infected mosquitoes. In the human body, the parasites multiply in the liver, and then infect red blood cells.

I know one sickle cell trait and one normal red blood cell trait provides a natural defense against malaria. This has to do with the mutated sickle cell being immune to the malaria parasite. However two sickle cell traits are bad because they do not have enough hemoglobin.

The discovery of the microorganism responsible for causing malaria?

The causative microorganism for malaria is a protozoa. The name of that protozoa is Plasmodium.