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    Malaria (also called biduoterian fever‚ blackwater fever‚ falciparum malaria‚ plasmodium‚ Quartan malaria‚ and tertian malaria) is one of the most infectious and most common diseases in the world. This serious‚ sometimes-fatal disease is caused by a parasite that is carried by a certain species of mosquito called the Anopheles. It claims more lives every year than any other transmissible disease except tuberculosis. Every year‚ five hundred million adults and children (around nine percent of the

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    MALARIA By Elizabeth Nduta Mbugua (14-0647) Submitted to Dr.Geoffery K.Kinuthia Department of Science and Engineering School of Science‚ Engineering and Health Of Daystar University Nairobi‚ Kenya In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for BIOLOGY (BIO 111) 19th March 2014   INTRODUCTION Malaria affects 10%of the world’s population with 300-500 million new cases each year and 2 million deaths annually. It is called the worlds invisible pandemic. It is transmission

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    MALARIA INTRODUCTION: Malaria is one of the most devastating and infectious disease in many areas of the world and more or so in many developing countries in Africa‚ Asia‚ Middle East‚ South America and Central America. This disease has been noted for more than 4000 years (Center for disease control‚ Para 3). In addition‚ Malaria causes death in children after prenatal conditions‚ lower respiratory infections‚ and diarrhea diseases. The number of children dying from the disease is higher than

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    Malaria In epidemiology‚ a vector is any agent (person‚ animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen into another living organism. Malaria‚ and also know as Plasmodium Falciparum is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals caused by protists (a type of microorganism) of the genus Plasmodium. It begins with a bite from an infected female Anopheles mosquito‚ which introduces the protists through saliva into the circulatory system. In the blood

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    riMalaria 1 Parasitic Disease: Malaria Brittany Jolicoeur May 8th‚ 2012 Frost/ SB1 3U Malaria 2 Parasitic Disease: Malaria Malaria is a serious parasitic infection that is spread by Anopheles mosquitoes. The Plasmodium parasite that can cause malaria is neither a bacterium nor a virus therefore it is a single-celled parasite that multiplies in red blood cells of humans as well as in the mosquito intestine. C. Laveran in 1880 was the first

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    RUA: Dangers of Malaria Yaidelyn Alonso Chamberlain College of Nursing NR281 Pathophysiology I Fall‚ 2014 RUA: Dangers of Malaria Malaria is a serious and sometimes-lethal disease caused by a parasite that commonly infects a certain type of mosquito‚ which then ultimately infects humans. Malaria causes high fever‚ chills and flu-like symptoms. This disease is mostly found in Africa‚ Southern Asia‚ Central America and South America. Usually‚ many people who travel are more predisposed to the

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    Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals caused by protists (a type of microorganism) of the genus Plasmodium. It begins with a bite from an infected female Anopheles mosquito‚ which introduces the protists through saliva into the circulatory system. In the blood‚ the protists travel to the liver to mature and reproduce. Malaria causes symptoms that typically include fever and headache‚ which in severe cases can progress to coma or death. The disease is widespread

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    MALARIA Malaria is a parasitic disease that involves high fevers‚ shaking chills‚ flu-like symptoms‚ and anemia. CAUSES: Malaria is caused by a parasite that is transmitted from one human to another by the bite of infected Anopheles mosquitoes. In humans‚ the parasites (called sporozoites) travel to the liver‚ where they mature and release another form‚ the merozoites. These enter the bloodstream and infect the red blood cells. The parasites multiply inside the red blood cells‚ which then

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    Conquering Malaria In Africa Joshua Allen Deaton Michigan State University Conquering Malaria In Africa Malaria is the most problematic‚ and therefore the most important of the parasitic diseases of humans. Analysis of the effects of the acute infectious disease known as Malaria demonstrates the importance of conquering/eliminating the spreading Malaria epidemic. It is believed that the successful elimination of the malaria epidemic will be possible through numerous effective intervention

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    Stephanie Saperstein ISB 201L 9.24.11 Deforestation and Malaria The changes in global environments is expected to affect the rate of malaria cases in humans. Malaria is a serious and at times fatal disease caused by an infectious parasite that can live within a mosquito that feeds on humans. These mosquitos breed in numerous areas and have affected many populations causing many people to suffer from its painful symptoms and effects of the disease. Researchers have been conducting tests on

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