What is malaria?!


Question: It's a disease caused by plasmodium parasites that live in the blood and destroy the victim's red blood cells. It's transmitted by mosquitoes. Symptoms include chills, sweats, headaches, nausea, and muscle pain. Even with proper medical treatment, it can still be fatal.


Answers: It's a disease caused by plasmodium parasites that live in the blood and destroy the victim's red blood cells. It's transmitted by mosquitoes. Symptoms include chills, sweats, headaches, nausea, and muscle pain. Even with proper medical treatment, it can still be fatal.

Malaria is a life-threatening parasitic disease transmitted by mosquitoes. It was once thought that the disease came from fetid marshes, hence the name mal aria, ((bad air). In 1880, scientists discovered the real cause of malaria a one-cell parasite called plasmodium. Later they discovered that the parasite is transmitted from person to person through the bite of a female Anopheles mosquito, which requires blood to nurture her eggs.

It is an infectious disease carried by mosquitos.

It was a major problem in africa, and so many africans developed a natural immunity to it-sickle cells.

Sickle cell anemia is a problem in itself, but sickle cell anemics have an AMAZING resistance to malaria!

All u want to know about malaria :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria

Malaria is an infection spread by the bite of a mosquito. The disease is characterized by high fever and profuse sweating often with headache and a feeling of feebleness. Malaria is mainly contracted in the tropics and there are preventive medicines available which vary according to the strain of malaria prominent in the area one is traveling. Treatment of the disease is effected by several drugs dependent on the type of malaria involved.





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