Compare and contrast the medicines used in the prophylaxis of malaria The bite of an infected female Anopheles mosquito can cause protozoan parasites which when passed on from human to human can generate the well known tropical disease known as malaria. The prophylaxis of malaria‚ a vector borne infectious disease‚ is vital as prevention for this disease is very necessary. Malaria can be infected in humans by four separate species of plasmodium parasites. These parasites are Plasmodium falciparum
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into the wrinkles of an elderly man or woman‚ a story can be uncovered. But in Africa‚ people are lucky to make it to such an age; every 30 seconds a child dies of malaria ("Fact sheet n°94‚" 2010). The problems don’t stop there. The world is affected by the many impacts of such a disease. As one of the number one killers‚ malaria has caught the attention of many organizations. Many other countries‚ mostly those that have a subtropical climate or that are islands‚ have overcame and reduced the
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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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Compulsory vaccines for children are a controversial topic that has been around the world for hundreds of years. Some people have been opposed to vaccines since the beginning. Some are against children getting vaccines because they view the vaccine as dangerous and unsafe. Some feel that diseases aren’t as harmful as they really are. Vaccines have saved countless children’s lives and have eradicated and eliminated many diseases. Vaccines should be required for children because they save lives‚ protects
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the smallpox vaccine may have had an even more significant impact in terms of lives saved” said Dr. Baker the director of the medicine history. Vaccination is the administration of antigenic material (a vaccine) to stimulate an individual’s immune system to develop adaptive immunity to a pathogen. Vaccines can prevent or ameliorate morbidity from infection. The effectiveness of vaccination has been widely studied and verified; for example‚ the influenza vaccine‚[1] the HPV vaccine‚[2] and the chicken
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Views to stop spread of malaria!!! The parasites that cause malaria are transmitted by a species of insects which are known as the female Anopheles mosquitoes. These parasites multiply within the red blood cells (which are commonly abbreviated as the RBC’s). These parasites cause the symptoms of anaemia‚ which also includes light-headedness‚ shortness of breath‚ tachycardia‚ etc. They also cause such general symptoms as fever‚ chills‚ influenza (which is commonly abbreviated as flu)-like
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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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Vaccines: To Be or Not To Be? Ryleigh Grace—this is the name of my beautiful 8-month-old cousin. Looking at her‚ one would never be able to tell that she was born with a serious‚ life-threatening condition called meningitis. As a result‚ Ryleigh’s home for the first month of her life became the Cooper hospitals ICU. However‚ this scare was not enough to convince her parents to allow Ryleigh to receive her routine child-hood vaccinations‚ which would prevent other dangerous ailments she may encounter
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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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