Malaria, maybe some of you only heard of the disease, but this time the author would like to share a little about what it is malaria. In Indonesia is one of the endemic countries the disease.
Map the spread of malaria
what is Malaria?
Malaria is a disease caused by parasitic infection also known as plasmodium is transmitted by mosquitoes. Malaria is only transmitted through mosquito bites that already contain the plasmodium parasite in his body, but malaria is not transmitted through adjacent to the sufferer. Malaria can also be spread by pregnant women who suffer from malaria to the fetus when pregnant. Anopheles mosquitoes are the mosquitoes that transmit malaria parasites. Anopheles mosquitoes capable of transmitting malaria.
What are the symptoms of Malaria?
Malaria can cause flu-like illness are high fever, pain in the muscles of the body frame, excessive cold where these symptoms can disappear and come form a certain cycle. There are several types of plasmodium parasites; one can make the most severe clinical symptoms that can cause disturbances in liver, heart, lung, kidney, and brain.
Malaria Symptoms
How to diagnose malaria?
Blood tests in quite different malaria patients compared with blood tests on other infectious diseases, where the malaria that are mainly using thick blood drops examination to find the type of plasmodium parasite in different stages of parasite development. Examination of thick blood drops to Plasmodium vivax
How Malaria treatment?
Currently, there are enough drugs for malaria, but these drugs are more common in areas endemic for malaria itself compared to the big cities where malaria is almost never found. Make sure when you suspect you are suffering from malaria and recently traveled to malaria endemic areas to receive treatment from a doctor.
One of the anti-malaria drugs
How to prevent Malaria?
When you travel to areas where malaria is endemic make sure you get treatment before you go, and when you've arrived in endemic areas who use the drugs applied to your skin to avoid mosquito bites.
Source:
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2. Snow RW, Guerra CA, Noor AM, Myint HY, Hay SI (2005). "The global distribution of clinical episodes of Plasmodium falciparum malaria." Nature 434 (7030): 214-7
3. ftp.iza.org/dp2997.pdf
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