Malaria is a disease we have heard and thought it is a thing of the past. But the truth remains that malaria is as effective as it has always been especially in sub tropical region of Africa. Malaria being an easy spread disease by female mosquito called Anopheles, it has so many damages in our world today. In some countries, malaria is the leading cause of so many death.
What causes malaria?
This very active disease called malaria is caused by mosquito bite but basically not the mosquito itself cause malaria but a parasite that uses the mosquito as it host in transferring from an infected person to another. Here is how this maths is done: when an anopheles (female mosquito) bites an infected person, it transfers the parasite to someone that is not infected when it bites the person too.
What are the symptoms of malaria?
Depending on your body system, there are some people that notice their symptoms after a week of the mosquito bite while some notice their’s at about a month later. Below are the symptoms of malaria:
Headache
Anemia
Dizziness
Sweating
Fever
Nausea – vomiting
With this listed symptoms, you are advice to reach out for medication to stop malaria attack as this disease is as effective as it is in past times.
How can malaria be prevented?
Malaria can be prevented in different ways. Poor economical countries use what is known as bed nets that are well treated with insecticide as this means of prevention is very cheap. Drugs is another way of preventing this disease, but drugs are not cheap and researchers discovered that drugs from the quinine family is a good bet for the treatment of malaria.
For personal prevention, individuals are advice to seek medication when symptoms are traceable and avoid vulnerable areas. Always keep the environment clean and dispose waste at the right time.
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