Malaria

malaria statistics

-216 million people -445000 deaths in 2016 -91% of deaths occur in Africa - a child dies every minute from malaria in africa

malaria challenges

-challenges with insecticide treated net -poverty -socio-economic burden it creates -poor or no diagnosis of infection -nature and behavior of vectors no vaccine parasites have developed resistance to medicine prevailing environmental condition -insecticides may cause cancer -ddt used for spraying is carcinogenic

treatment for malaria

-chloroquine- highly drug resistant -ACT Artemisinin-based combination therapy

prevention

-prophylaxis: paludrin -vector control- indoor and outdoor spraying with residual insecticides -insecticide treated mosquito nets

modes of transmission

-vector borne -food borne -inhalation -waterborne -blood/sexual borne

housefly

dysentary/diarrhea

symptoms of malaria

fever, headache, chills, vomiting, and usually appears between 10 and 15 days after the mosquito bite.

tick

lyme disease

Malaria

malaria is caused by a parasite called plasmodium, which is transmitted through the bite of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. in human body, the parasites multiply in the liver, and then infect the red blood cells

mosquito

malaria/yellow fever

transmission of malaria

primarily through the bite of Anopheles mosquito

mite

scabies

cockroach

typhoid fever/dysentary

louse

typhus fever

populations at highest risk

young children and people with low immunity

malaria cycle

bite of ampheles-> plasmodium develops in mosquito-> mosquito bites a host-> enters humans liver-> released from liver into blood stream-> mature in red blood cells and burst at maturity

infectious disease

caused by pathogenic microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi; the diseases can be spread directly or indirectly from one person to another

risk factors

climatic conditions and environmental conditions- fresh water -tropical climate -high conc of people infected