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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 the parasites of malaria avoid the host's defenses?
Malaria is a difficult infection for the human body to identify and deal with
The parasite has two distinct phases -
in the first, it reproduces inside the liver (it gets here within minutes after a mosquito bites you - and can stay here for 8-30 days, depending on the strain)
Once they burst out of the liver cells, they go into the blood, and infect the red blood cells (second phase, here they again replicate and infect more cells)
It is hard for the body to recognise in the liver, because the body does not really look 'inside' the liver cells as much.
Within the red blood cells, again, it is hidden from a lot of the immune system, and needs to be destroyed in your spleen. (Althought the parasite tries to avoid this by causing your blood to clot, and avoid going to the spleen).
It's important if you have symptoms of fever, and you've stayed in an area with malaria recently, to get checked - it's easily diagnosable! Also, prevention if you're thinking of travelling is cheap and effective.
No. How or what? Another fun acronym to remember: DDT. It is a very easy way to stop malaria. It got a bad wrap due to overuse when it first came out and subsequent consequence for the extreme overuse. It doesn't really harm humans but it did harm birds: it weakened their eggs' strength. Just a little can go a long way and is very effective. Politics over it's misused past is what is holding its use up today. Sorry: you have to blame politics for something else.
What chemicals did many countries use to eradicate malaria?
Many countries used chemicals such as DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) and other organochlorine pesticides to eradicate malaria-carrying mosquitoes in the mid-20th century. However, due to environmental and health concerns, the use of these chemicals has been greatly reduced in recent decades in favor of other control measures like insecticide-treated bed nets and indoor residual spraying with safer insecticides.
How do you know if you have milaria?
If your a man you start to look more womanly and vise virsa plus your eyes start to melt
Why do loads of people die from malaria if it is curable?
In poor countries, modern medical care is often not available. Hospitals, doctors, medicines, medical equipment, etc., all cost money, and not everybody has that much money. For that matter, if people just used mosquito netting, which is a lot cheaper than medical care, they could in most cases avoid getting malaria in the first place.
Why it is said breed guppy fish save us from malaria?
Mosquito larvae live in water until adulthood. Guppy fish eat the mosquito larvae reducing the overall number of mosquitoes in that particular area. Infected Anopheles mosquitoes are the carriers/vectors of malaria.
What will happen if all the trees in the equatorial regions are cleared?
If all the trees in the equatorial regions are cleared then we would'nt get the bark of cinchona tree to cure malaria. We would not get rubber from the rubber trees.
One of them was quinine. It is contained in tonic water, which made gin and tonic so refreshing to those in colonial Africa. Before the isolation of quinine, powdered Peruvian Bark, isolated from Cinchona trees, was used to treat patients with malaria. Quinine was isolated from the bark in 1817, and a synthetic form is now used. In the mid 1700s, willow bark was noted to have an effect against malaria. While willow bark did not cure the disease, it reduced the fever, pain, and fatigue of patients with malaria. The active compound in the bark was salicin, a compound that is related to aspirin.
Are there lingering after-effects from malaria after you've been cured?
Depending upon how high temperature was for duration male sterility is a long term effect related to the killing off of sperm. The sterility can last for many years or be permanent.
In which year was the national malaria eradication programme NMEP implemented?
In which year was the national malaria eradication programme NMEP implemented?
Who proposed the name malaria?
1740 - H. Walpole first used "mal'aria" (Italian: bad air) to describe the disease
20th century - shortened to "malaria"
1880 - C. Laveran first identified the parasite in human blood
1889 - R. Ross discovered that mosquitoes transmitted malaria
Is malaria a virus bacteria or protist?
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals caused by parasitic protozoans (protists) (a type of single cell microorganism) of the Plasmodium genus. The word malaria means "bad air" as people thought that you could get it from breathing in air.
How did the discovery of malaria affect society?
it was one of the steps to control that deadly disease.
it showed one of the side-effects of stagnant water to make people to work for cleanliness.
An apicoplast is a derived non-photosynthetic plastid, found in most protozoan parasites belonging to the phylum Chromalveolata.
