HOW TO PREVENT MALARIA

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.

FACTS YOU DONT KNOW ABOUT MALARIA

Malaria is a disease we hear about and often assume it a disease of the past, not affecting many today. Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth. In many parts of the world malaria is a very active disease and in some countries is actually the leading cause of death.

In Africa, one child dies every 30 seconds from Malaria
Approximately 90% of Malaria related deaths are reported from the Sub-Saharan region of Africa. Each year 350 to 500 million cases of malaria occur world-wide, and over one million people die, most of them young children.

Malaria disease depends mainly on climatic factors such as temperature, rainfall and humidity. Areas where these diseases are found are Africa, India, south America etc. malaria is transmitted in tropical and subtropical regions where the host mosquito of the family Anopheles can survive and multiply. There are about 430 Anopheles species but only 30 to 40 of this species transmit malaria parasite.

This mosquito carries the parasite infected blood it has extracted from an infected blood and transmits it to the next person when it bites the person but only in areas where the parasite can complete its growth cycle can human be infected. There are about three species of malaria parasite which includes: plasmodium, malariae, falciparum etc. The time require for development of the parasite in the mosquito is about 10 – 21 days depending on the paracitic specie and temperature.

Malaria being caused by a parasite which has the mosquito as its host have the following symptoms: fever, headaches, sweating, muscle ache and dizziness. It can also cause vomiting and yellowing color of skin and eye due to the loss of red blood cell. When Infected with the parasitic specie like falciparum it might not be easily treated. This can cause kidney failure, mental problems, Coma and death.