Malaria is regarded as one of the world’s deadliest tropical parasitic diseases. It claims more lives than any other communicable disease except tuberculosis. In Africa and other developing countries‚ it also accounts for millions of dollars in medical costs. Malaria‚ however‚ is a curable disease if promptly diagnosed and adequately treated. Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by the parasite plasmodium. In recent years‚ most cases in the U.S. have been in people who have acquired the
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II 12/10/13 Malaria VS. The Black Plague In the fourteenth century‚ death and devastation swept from Asia to Europe in the form of the Black Plague‚ killing nearly one third of the world’s population. The Black Plague was one of the most horrid pandemics in history. Arguably‚ other modern day diseases such as Malaria‚ have‚ and continue to impact the world in many ways. While the medical responses‚ based off knowledge and economic results differ from the Black Death to Malaria‚ social classing
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Page 1 of 6 Life Cycle of Malaria Page 2 of 6 Malaria is an ancient disease transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito that predates recorded history. Historically it was common in the swampy areas around Rome‚ and was believed that the tainted air in those locations made people very sick‚ the disease was therefore named malaria for the Latin root words bad air. Malaria is caused by small parasitic protozoa of the genus Plasmodium which infects both humans and mosquitoes in a cyclical process.
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The term `Malaria ’ originates from Medieval Italian Mala aria which mean “bad air”; and the disease was formerly called Ague or Marsh fever due to its association with swamps and marshland‚ (Watkins‚ 2001). Scientific studies on Malaria made their first significant advance in 1880‚ when Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran a French army doctor working in the military hospital of Constantine in Algeria observed malaria plasmodium parasites inside the red blood cell of people suffering from Malaria. Documentation
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Introduction Malaria is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in Nigeria. It is endemic throughout the country with more than 90% of the total population at risk of stable endemic malaria. At least 50% of the population suffers from at least one episode of malaria each year. However children aged less than 5 years and pregnant women are among the highest at risk of infection it has been documented that malaria‚ a parasitic disease which is easily preventable
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misses with malaria since independence. Prevention starts at home. Self determination is needed .Protective measures should be adopted; they not only help protect the individual but rather deprive the mosquito of its blood meal .self enforcement is the key‚ motivation and commitment from the user is needed for a fail safe outcome. A child dies from malaria every 30 seconds The Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM) (an alliance of WHO‚ UNICEF‚ World Bank‚ UN Development Programme‚ malaria endemic countries
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Current Status of Malaria Vaccinology In order to assess the current status of malaria vaccinology one must first take an overview of the whole of the whole disease. One must understand the disease and its enormity on a global basis. Malaria is a protozoan disease of which over 150 million cases are reported per annum. In tropical Africa alone more than 1 million children under the age of fourteen die each year from Malaria. From these figures it is easy to see that eradication of this disease
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In current society‚ malaria has played a significant role in children who died before the age of five. Over the past century‚ average life expectancy has more than doubled. However‚ there were 135 million children who were born five years ago‚ approximately 10 million of them died before the age of five (Bill Gates‚ 2009). The essay will focus on the reason and solution‚ and then give some recommendations. The mosquito is the main reason to cause malaria. More specifically‚ mosquitoes transmit
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Introduction Malaria is one of the leading causes of mortality rates in most parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. Caused by Plasmodium Falciparum‚ the disease serves as one of the leading threats to human population across the continent. Theoretical concepts tend to front mosquitoes and hence the parasite it carries as the main reason behind the high impacts of Malaria. However‚ research indicates that the spread of the effects of malaria has majorly been caused other health factors‚ for instance‚ decline
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Malaria Disease The Malaria disease made its first appearance more than 4000 years ago. It used to be one of the diseases that people feared the most. About 655‚000 people die from Malaria in 2010‚ about 200 people per day. In that year‚ 90% of the deaths occurred in the WHO region‚ Africa. Most of the Africans were women and children under the age of 5. (World Heath Organization‚ 2012) First of all‚ to know that u have Malaria‚ your body will start acting strange. You will get a headache‚ a high
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