Malaria

It's a myth. Mosquito nets prevent malaria.

All the diseases, which are mentioned above are caused by protozoa.

The figure is about 600,000.

No, it's spread by consumption of food or water that has fecal matter on or in it, from a person infected with typhoid.

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.

a parasitologist or microbiologist. a medical technologist will do the actual testing.

unicellular animals this includes amoeba and Plasmodium species called protozoans and single celled plants like algae

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).

im going to dominican republic for my holiday,im going to have a malaria jab for prevention,how long does the vaccanation jab last ?

Malaria is a proper noun because its a name of a disease.

Plasmodium falciparum, a protozoan parasite, causes malignant malaria. It is transmitted by the female Anopheles mosquito.

they dont move at all

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.

In Africa many people died from malaria.

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.

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.

Draining wetlands to decrease the number of mosquitoes can reduce the amount of clean groundwater available.

how using a vaccine may give long term immunity to malaria

You can live for a few weeks if your malaria is not treated, If you know about your malaria and treat it well, you may not die with the disease!

there is no cure for malaria, however, it can be treated with doses of quinine, also to be used as a preventive measure.

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