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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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All the diseases, which are mentioned above are caused by protozoa.
Is typhoid caused by mosquitoes?
No, it's spread by consumption of food or water that has fecal matter on or in it, from a person infected with typhoid.
How many people die from malaria each year?
Every year there are about 3-500 million cases and about 1-3 million deaths caused by malaria.
Yes. Malaria is a type of disease. And noun is a person, place, thing or idea. Malaria is a thing. Which means its a noun.
What are names of scientists that study malaria?
a parasitologist or microbiologist. a medical technologist will do the actual testing.
What is the protocyst in malaria?
unicellular animals this includes amoeba and Plasmodium species called protozoans and single celled plants like algae
At what altitude would you get malaria?
You get malaria in areas where mosquitoes thrive. There are four varieties of malaria, and one species of mosquito that carries them all. The disease is caused by a germ, and the germ is carried by an insect which exists in warm & wet areas. As water flows to the lowest place, the lower altitudes are where you contract malaria.
In terms of the specific question asked, it seems that the risk falls of with increasing altitude and is considered very low above 1500m ( approx 4900 feet).
How long do malaria vaccinces last?
im going to dominican republic for my holiday,im going to have a malaria jab for prevention,how long does the vaccanation jab last ?
Is malaria a type of common or proper noun?
Malaria is a proper noun because its a name of a disease.
What is the reason of malignant malaria?
Plasmodium falciparum, a protozoan parasite, causes malignant malaria. It is transmitted by the female Anopheles mosquito.
How do female mosquitoes get infected with malaria?
Female anopheles mosquito needs haemoglobin for her oogenesis or ovulation. So it need to suck blood from the animals, including humans. When it suck blood from the patent of malaria, gets infected with malaria parasite. It remains infected through out the life span of say six months.
Is symptoms of like malaria is a sign of pregnancy?
I too was pregnant and yes some symtoms are; such as coughing up blood, urges to strangle people and urophobia (a fear of toilet seats).
Of course they can. Almost anyone can get malaria and there are very few things which make you immune. Quite conversely, a significant proportion of African people have mutations which render them immune to the parasite such as sickle cell anaemia which confers considerable immunity. The only reason white people make up the minority of those infected is because of the where the mosquito vector and the malaria parasite can survive best, i.e. Africa and India/South East Asia.
Is mefloquine effective against cerebral malaria and how?
Mefloquine is effective against cerebral malaria. But you can not depend on this drug alone. There is no injection of mefloquine is available. It is available in tablet form. You have to give this drug by nasogastric tube in unconscious patient.
My Dad had black malaria during WW II, while working for National Catholic War Relief Services in Tanzania, near Arusha. My Mom says he was in a coma for a while. She does not remember how long, but he was hospitalized for two weeks or so. Supposedly, the worst malaria you can get. Chills, shivering, and high fever.
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 might an effort to combat malaria further damage people's health?
Draining wetlands to decrease the number of mosquitoes can reduce the amount of clean groundwater available.
How using a vaccine may give a long-term immunity to malaria?
how using a vaccine may give long term immunity to malaria
Who created the cure for malaria?
there is no cure for malaria, however, it can be treated with doses of quinine, also to be used as a preventive measure.
What were the white and tan pills given for malaria in Vietnam?
I once heard the US was using us as guinea pigs and said they never gave us those little white pills in 1965
Also heard a rumor it was something they used for leprosy
What famous pharaoh of Egypt died of complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria?
King Tutankhamun - Abstract from Journal of the American Medical Association
Ancestry and Pathology in King Tutankhamun's Family
Zahi Hawass, PhD; Yehia Z. Gad, MD; Somaia Ismail, PhD; Rabab Khairat, MSc; Dina Fathalla, MSc; Naglaa Hasan, MSc; Amal Ahmed, BPharm; Hisham Elleithy, MA; Markus Ball, MSc; Fawzi Gaballah, PhD; Sally Wasef, MSc; Mohamed Fateen, MD; Hany Amer, PhD; Paul Gostner, MD; Ashraf Selim, MD; Albert Zink, PhD; Carsten M. Pusch, PhD
JAMA. 2010;303(7):638-647.
Context The New Kingdom in ancient Egypt, comprising the 18th, 19th, and 20th dynasties, spanned the mid-16th to the early 11th centuries BC. The late 18th dynasty, which included the reigns of pharaohs Akhenaten and Tutankhamun, was an extraordinary time. The identification of a number of royal mummies from this era, the exact relationships between some members of the royal family, and possible illnesses and causes of death have been matters of debate.
Objectives To introduce a new approach to molecular and medical Egyptology, to determine familial relationships among 11 royal mummies of the New Kingdom, and to search for pathological features attributable to possible murder, consanguinity, inherited disorders, and infectious diseases.
Design From September 2007 to October 2009, royal mummies underwent detailed anthropological, radiological, and genetic studies as part of the King Tutankhamun Family Project. Mummies distinct from Tutankhamun's immediate lineage served as the genetic and morphological reference. To authenticate DNA results, analytical steps were repeated and independently replicated in a second ancient DNA laboratory staffed by a separate group of personnel. Eleven royal mummies dating from circa 1410-1324 BC and suspected of being kindred of Tutankhamun and 5 royal mummies dating to an earlier period, circa 1550-1479 BC, were examined.
Main Outcome Measures Microsatellite-based haplotypes in the mummies, generational segregation of alleles within possible pedigree variants, and correlation of identified diseases with individual age, archeological evidence, and the written historical record.
Results Genetic fingerprinting allowed the construction of a 5-generation pedigree of Tutankhamun's immediate lineage. The KV55 mummy and KV35YL were identified as the parents of Tutankhamun. No signs of gynecomastia and craniosynostoses (eg, Antley-Bixler syndrome) or Marfan syndrome were found, but an accumulation of malformations in Tutankhamun's family was evident. Several pathologies including Köhler disease II were diagnosed in Tutankhamun; none alone would have caused death. Genetic testing for STEVOR, AMA1, or MSP1 genes specific for Plasmodium falciparum revealed indications of malaria tropica in 4 mummies, including Tutankhamun's. These results suggest avascular bone necrosis in conjunction with the malarial infection as the most likely cause of death in Tutankhamun. Walking impairment and malarial disease sustained by Tutankhamun is supported by the discovery of canes and an afterlife pharmacy in his tomb.
Conclusion Using a multidisciplinary scientific approach, we showed the feasibility of gathering data on Pharaonic kinship and diseases and speculated about individual causes of death.
Author Affiliations: Supreme Council of Antiquities, Cairo, Egypt (Dr Hawass and Mr Elleithy); National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt (Drs Gad, Ismail, and Amer and Mss Hasan and Ahmed); Ancient DNA Laboratory, Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt (Drs Gad and Ismail and Mss Fathalla, Khairat, Hasan, and Ahmed); Institute of Human Genetics, Division of Molecular Genetics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany (Ms Khairat, Mr Ball, and Dr Pusch); Learning Resource Center, Kasr Al Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt (Drs Gaballah and Fateen and Ms Wasef); Department of Radiodiagnostics, Central Hospital Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy (Dr Gostner); Department of Radiology, Kasr Al Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt (Dr Selim); and Institute for Mummies and the Iceman, EURAC, Bolzano, Italy (Dr Zink).
