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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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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.
Can rheumatoid arthritis due to malaria be cured?
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.
Famous people who have died of malaria?
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.
How did soldiers get Malaria in World War 2?
Same way people always have caught malaria - through getting bitten by mosquitoes carrying the disease.
Is black death the same as malaria?
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.
Did King Tutankhamun die of cerebral 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
Did Mother Teresa have malaria?
mother teresa...suffered a heart attack in Rome in 1983, while visiting Pope John Paul II. After a second attack in 1989, she received an artificial pacemaker. In 1991, after a battle with pneumonia while in Mexico, she suffered further heart problems. She offered to resign her position as head of the Missionaries of Charity. But the nuns of the order, in a secret ballot, voted for her to stay. Mother Teresa agreed to continue her work as head of the order. In April 1996, Mother Teresa fell and broke her collar bone. In August she suffered from malaria and failure of the left heart ventricle. She had heart surgery, but it was clear that her health was declining. When she fell ill, she made the controversial decision to be treated at a well-equipped hospital in California instead of one of her own clinics. The Archbishop of Calcutta, Henry Sebastian D'Souza, said he ordered a priest to perform an exorcism on Mother Teresa with her permission when she was first hospitalized with cardiac problems because he thought she may be under attack by the devil.
On March 13, 1997, she stepped down from the head of Missionaries of Charity. She died on September 5, 1997.
Influenza is a microbe disease. Edward Cullen had it!! :O (Twilight)
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.
Why were people in Jamestown susceptible to malaria?
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.
Did Davy Crockett survive malaria?
Davy Crockett did not survive malaria; he is best known for his exploits as a frontiersman and politician, but he died at the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. There are no historical records indicating he contracted malaria or survived it. Instead, his legacy is tied to his role in American history rather than any illness he may have faced.
Malaria is a serious tropical disease spread by mosquitoes.
If it isn't diagnosed and treated promptly, it can be fatal.
What statement best describes the role of gametocytes in the spread of malaria?
they cause a chemical reaction that alters human scent
