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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 is a geographic difference between malaria and Ebola viruses?
In the long term, HIV is more lethal. In the short term, Ebola is far more lethal. Ebola kills much more rapidly, but it doesn't kill everyone. Some people recover. HIV kills much more slowly, but it kills virtually everyone that it infects.
How many people died from malaria during the civil war?
It is estimated that 11,000 people died from measles during the Civil War. Dysentery was the worse disease to kill soldiers, it is estimated almost 100,000 died from it.
Where are malaria mosquitoes found?
In Central and South America, sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Oceania
What are nicknames for malaria?
Typhoid Fever its self is a nickname. The real name for it is Enteric Fever
What parasitic sporazoan causes malaria?
Plasmodium vivax causes 8 out of 10 cases of malaria. Fortunately this form of malaria is usually not lethal.
malaria reproduces throughout the blood stream and the liver
Do you need malaria tablets for Caribbean?
No, you do not need malaria tablets for the caribbean. You will need a passport. I usually bring my passport, drivers license and social security card on all my traveling. If you are worried about malaria, which is not carried by all mosquitos, or any other environmental disease, take bug spray and sunscreen. I recommend using Off bug spray.
Why does shivering occur in malaria?
The cyclical pattern of malaria symptoms (fever, chills, fever, chills) is due to the time-regulated bursting of merozoites from red blood cells. The merozoites (a stage in the malaria parasite's development), burst from red blood cells in a cyclical pattern at a time which is specific to the species of malaria parasite. The fever is the body's immune response to the sudden high concentration of merozoites in the bloodstream. The chills are due to the invasion of new red blood cells by the merozoites.
What protist is transmitted to humans by mosquitos and causes malaria?
You can get: West Nile Virus, Eastern Equine Encephalitis, Japanese Encephalitis Virus, La Crosse Encephalitis, St. Louis Encephalitis, Western Equine Encephalitis, Dengue Fever, Malaria, Rift Valley Fever, and Yellow Fever Heartworm (dogs)
How does malaria cause anaemia?
The mosquito is infected with malaria, and when it bites people, it injects an anti-coagulant to make the blood easier to drink, and that is contaminated with the disease organism, so the person who is bitten becomes infected.
Can you get malaria from swallowing a mosquito?
if you have sex with mosquitoes...but that's zoophily
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if you have sex with someone who already has malaria
Malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes that have bitten an infected person and then bitten you. It is in the saliva of the mosquito. To prevent the disease a person wants to reduce the number of bites they receive. Nets to sleep under help. Reducing the number of mosquitoes help. Spray to repel insects help.
A disease caused by the presence of the sporozoan Plasmodium in human or other vertebrate erythrocytes, usually transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected female mosquito of the genus Anopheles that previously sucked blood from a person with malaria
Malaria is a potentially fatal tropical disease that is caused by a parasite known as Plasmodium. It is spread through the bite of an infected female mosquito. Malaria is transmitted to humans from the Anopheles mosquito. *Each year, there are approximately 515 million cases of malaria, killing between one and three million people, the majority of whom are young children in Africa. *Ninety percent of malaria-related deaths occur in Africa. Malaria is commonly associated with poverty, but is also a cause of poverty. *Malaria is one of the most common infectious diseases and an enormous public health problem. *Young children are more prone to getting Malaria than adults are. *Malaria is a disease which kills a child every 30 seconds across Africa. *In Tanzania malaria is the leading killer of children. Symptoms of malaria are fever, shivering, joint pain, vomiting, anemia, hemoglobinuria (when your urine turns red), retinal damage, and convulsions. The classic symptom of malaria is occurrence of sudden coldness followed by rigor (shaking) and then fever and sweating lasting four to six hours, every two days.
Malaria is caused by one of at least four species of parasitic protozoan in the Plasmodium genus, P. malariae, P. vivax, P. ovale, and P. falciparum, with P. falciparumcausing the most acute onset and highest mortality. It is spread by the female Anopheles mosquito in tropical and subtropical climates in endemic areas.
Need malaria meds in Costa Rica?
I lived in C.R. the first 28 years of my life and I never even heard of anyone contracting malaria. I would say it depends greatly on what part of the country you're visiting. If you're going where most people don't go (the jungles along the Nicaraguan border or deep into the swampy lowlands in some remote areas), then you're safer getting the meds.
There is no vaccine for malaria. The American CDC recommends prophylaxis with Chloroquine. In the cities, beaches or resorts, I just spray some mosquito repellent.
[Disclaimer: I'm no medical expert so take this advice for what it's worth. If in doubt, just go get your meds]
No, it is protozoa that cause malaria and the specific type is carried by mosquitoes. See the related question below for additional details.
Malaria is treated with a class of drugs which are known, unsurprisingly, as antimalarials. Antimalarial drugs are designed to attack the parasites which cause malaria, preventing them from spreading while also killing them off so that they cannot continue causing infection. The success of treatment varies, depending on what strain of malaria the patient has, whether or not the malaria is drug resistant, and whether or not the patient is able to complete the course of drugs needed to treat the malaria.
Where does malaria live in the body?
It's in the "spit" of the mosquito. Malaria is caused in an infectious protozoa. It's a nasty bug that does not affect the vector (the mosquito), but "hangs out" in the insect and is injected into the wound when the mosquito bites. The mosquito drinks blood, as you know, but it injects an anticoagulant into a bite to insure good "blood flow" to enable it to dine. And the unfortunate individual who is bitten is infected in the process. A link can be found below.
Where do parasites in malaria end up?
The parasites invade the red blood cells. They can also invade the walls of the blood vessels as well as the liver.
What is the role of a mosquito as a vector in spreading malaria?
They are caled the vectors or the method of transmission.yhe mosquito itself does not become infected but acts as a carrier and transmits the infection to humans after biting the person
What tree provides a medication to cure malaria?
Artemisia annua, also known as Sweet Wormwood, Sweet Annie, Sweet Sagewort or Annual Wormwood (Chinese: 青蒿; pinyin: qīnghāo), is a common type of wormwood that is native to temperate Asia, but naturalized throughout the world.This is the only effective herb against malaria.
How do africans get rid of malaria?
People did not have medicines back than. They used homemade remedies and traditional medicine.
Malaria is called as parasitic disease which is caused due to the infection or Protozoan known as PLASMODIUM and is a parasite or it complete its life cycle on two hosts female anaphilis (mosquito) and man
