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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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What can you do when you have the malaria?

well i would advice you to:

>maintain cleanliness of the surroundings /Clean your surroundings as much as possible.

>drink alot of water

>eat alot of vitamin c such as orange and eat also alot of vegetable

>proper hygiene

> consult a doctor

Is malaria infectious or non-infectious?

Yes.Is transmitted from person to person through a vector.

What plasmodium species causes the most severe malaria infection in human?

That species is called as Plasmodium falciparum. This species causes the most deadly infection of malaria. It is responsible for most of the deaths attributed to malaria.

What is the cure against malaria?

If the patient has P. vivax, P ovale, P. malariae, or has been in an area where there is no chloroquine resistance in P. falciparum, chloroquine is the best drug to use to treat malaria.

If the patient is infected with P. vivax or P. ovale, primaquine needs to be given as well. This drug is able to kill the liver stages of the parasites, unlike chloroquine. If primaquine is not used, the chloroquine will cure the acute attack, but the dormant liver stages will be able to cause recurrences in the future.

In cases where chloroquine resistant P. falciparum is suspected, either quinine, mefloquine, halofantrine or the artemesinins can be used. Parasites that are resistant to mefloquine are also often resistant to halofantrine. Mefloquine is also not licensed for use as treatment in South Africa. Halofantrine has been associated with cardiac side effects, and should not be used for routine treatment. Quinine was the first drug used to successfully treat malaria, and with increasing chloroquine resistance, it is making something of a "comeback". It is thought to be the best available agent for treating complicated chloroquine resistant falciparum malaria. Unfortunately, resistance to this drug is also being described.

A new class of drug is the artemesinin derivatives. This drug has been known for centuries in China and is derived from the wormwood plant. It shows great potential in being able to treat resistant falciparum malaria, and has been used often in SE Asia. Unfortunately, resistance to this agent is also being described. When these drugs are used to treat malaria, they should be combined with a second agent to try and reduce the development of resistance.

What are the symtoms of malaria?

Malaria causes a flu-like illness and these would include

  • fever
  • rigors
  • headaches
  • sweating
  • tiredness
  • myalgia (limbs and back)
  • abdominal pain
  • diarrhea
  • loss of appetite
  • orthostatic hypotension
  • nausea
  • slight jaundice
  • cough
  • enlarged liver and spleen (sometimes not palpable)
  • vomiting

What countries have malaria?

Malaria is transmitted in

  • large areas of Central and South America
  • the island of Hispaniola (includes Haiti and the Dominican Republic)
  • Africa
  • Asia (including the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and the Middle East)
  • Eastern Europe
  • and the South Pacific

and the boblands

Why female anopheles transmits malaria and male no?

female mosquitoes transmit malaria because they are the ones who actually suck blood,males do not. The blood feeding is part of the females egg laying process and as such the males do not need to suck blood.

Is malaria airbourne?

By what know I thought Mosquitos caused malaria? malaria is NOT transmitted through the air. it is a parasite in the bloodstream and is transmitted by mosquitos which have bitten a malaria sufferer..

Which countries are affected by malaria the most?

Kenya, Angola, Zimbabwe and many more like Egypt and Afghanistan

Are there vaccines for malaria?

There is currently no malaria vaccine, but it has been years in the making and is now close to being licensed. In the meantime, there are many medications to remedy malaria.

What two places in the human body must the malaria parasite go in oder to reproduce?

First is liver and second is red blood cells. It will be interesting to know that the parasite frequently changes the liver cells, before settling in finally.

What type of microbes cause amoebic dysentery and malaria?

They are caused by protozoa. Amoebic dysentery is caused by Entamoeba hystolytica. Malaria is caused by one of the four Plasmodium species.

What kind of mosquito causes malaria?

The primary vector of West Nile virus in the United States is the Northern House Mosquito (Culex pipiens). However other species including Cx. restuans, Cx. quinquefasciatus, Oc. j. japonicus, Cx. salinarius, and others also transmit the virus.

Where can malaria be found?

You can get Malaria near places that have a reputation of having a very high mosquito population. If u don't know why mosquitoes are involved with Malaria, that's because Malaria is a disease caused by a mosquito affected by Malaria. When one bites you, u get the disease.

What are some strategies used to prevent contracting malaria?

The first effective treatment for malaria was quinine, from the bark of the cinchona tree.

Malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes, so a many strategies for preventing malaria involve preventing mosquitoes from biting humans

* putting on mosquito spray -- a repellent such as DEET

* using mosquito netting to keep out mosquitoes

* killing mosquitoes with insecticides such as DDT and permethrin

* killing mosquito larvae with oil drips

When did Amerigo Vespucci get malaria?

Amerigo Vespucci died in Seville from Malaria in February, 1512. There were no cures and people didn't even know how Malaria was passed from one person to another during that time. As a result, many died due to ignorance of the disease.

What can you do to stop getting malaria?

Well one thing we need to note is that when a mosquito bites you, it sucks your blood and injects some of its parasites into you.

A parasite is something that isn't at all good for us humans, and when a mosquito bites us, the parasites go into our blood and goes all the way to out liver where it kills red blood cells and causes us harm.

How malaria first started?

-Unknown- Malaria has been infecting humans for at least 50,000 years, and may have existed as a pathogen in other species for even longer. For this reason it is impossible to know where the first cases of malaria appeared. While the earliest references to a malaria-like illness come from China, that is by no means an indication that malaria originated in Asia.

How do mosquitoes spread malaria from one human to another?

A female mosquito will lay eggs in some form of water. So if you leave a cup outside and it rains and the cup becomes filled the mosquito will lay eggs in it. And there's nothing you can do about them hatching. So if you don't want them in your back yard always dump out containers of water

Why is malaria found in tropical regions only?

Malaria is transmitted by a tropical species of mosquito that cannot survive the cold winters of temperate regions.