Malaria - Symptoms & Treatment

Malaria is an infection caused by a parasite and carried from person to person by mosquitoes. People with malaria often experience fever, chills, and flu-like illness.It was once thought that the disease came from fetid marshes, hence the name mal aria. Scientists discovered the real cause of malaria a one-cell parasite called plasmodium. There are four different types of malaria caused by four related parasites. The most deadly type occurs in Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Malaria symptoms include chills, flu-like symptoms, fever, vomiting, diarrhea and jaundice. The disease can be life-threatening. You can treat malaria with medicines. The type of medicine depends on which kind of malaria you have and where you were infected. Plasmodium falciparum malaria is most common in Africa, south of the Sahara, accounting in large part for the extremely high mortality in this region. There are also worrying indications of the spread of P. falciparum malaria into new regions of the world and its reappearance in areas where it had been eliminated.

Malaria parasites are developing unacceptable levels of resistance to one drug after another and many insecticides are no longer useful against mosquitoes transmitting the disease.Years of vaccine research have produced few hopeful candidates and although scientists are redoubling the search, an effective vaccine is at best years away. Drugs are not available for treatment or the parasites are resistant to them, the infection can progress rapidly to become life-threatening. Malaria can kill by infecting and destroying red blood cells (anaemia) and by clogging the capillaries that carry blood to the brain (cerebral malaria) or other vital organs. If countries can apply these and other measures on a wide scale and monitor them, then the burden of malaria will be significantly reduced.

Causes of Malaria

Common causes of Malaria

• Protozoan parasites.
• Simian.
• Endemic birds of Hawaii.

Symptoms of Malaria

Common Symptoms of Malaria

• Fever
• Shivering.
• Arthralgia.
• Vomiting.
• Anemia.
• Hemolysis.
• Hemoglobinuria.
• Abnormal posturing.
• Intracranial pressure.
• Convulsions.

Treatment of Malaria

Common Treatment of Malaria

• Antimalarial drugs(mefloquine , chloroquine , proguanil and pyrimethamine)are designed to prevent or cure malaria.

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