Malaria

Malaria parasites are micro-organism that belongs to genus plasmodium. Malaria is a

fatal disease that is usually spreads by the bite of an infected female anopheles’
mosquito, malaria is not a contagious disease but a pregnant woman can transmit the
parasite to the infant before or during the delivery. The parasites grow and multiply first
in the liver cells and then in the red cells of the blood. In the blood, successive broods of
parasites grow inside the red cells and destroy them, releasing daughter parasites
called “merozoites” that continue the cycle by invading other red cells.

Symptoms of malaria include fever and flu-like illness, including shaking chills,

headache, muscle aches, and tiredness. Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea may also
occur. Malaria can also cause anemia and jaundice due to the loss of blood; the
infection may become severe and may lead to kidney failure, seizures, mental
confusion, coma and worse death. For most people the symptoms begin in 10-4 weeks.
To be sure that you are a malaria positive patient physicians will test your blood and
look into it under the microscope. Malaria can be cure through the use of prescription
drugs; although the length of treatment depends on the type of malaria that you have.
To prevent getting malaria you should use mosquito repellant with DEET
(diethyltoluamide) in exposed skin, wear long pants and sleeve to cover your skin and use of
some antimalarial drugs
Sources:

https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/biology/index.html

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/15014-malaria