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Malaria
Malaria is an infectious disease. Malaria occurs in 102 countries between 40th parallel north
and south geographical latitude. 200 – 300 million people are infected every year and 2,7 million
of the infected die.
The most people are infected in Africa. Malaria was more occuted in the past, but
it was managed to inhibit this disease in many countries in which came to climate changes.
Malaria is caused by an eukaryotic protist of the genus Plasmodium. There are four types of
human malaria. The most deadly types are in Africa.
There is a chance of malaria to expand to new countries.
The disease vector is an infected female mosquito. Mosquitos can tain (nakazit) with malaria
from an infected human. Liver is defected by this desease, because the prozotoan grows in it.
This disease is characterised by seizures (záchvaty) which have tree stadiums: stadium of
ague, stadium of fever and stadium of swaeting and lower fever. Some forms of malaria and their
complications can lead to death.
The most common symptoms are fever, headache, tiredness, pain of joints (bolest kloubů) and
muscles.
If the medicine is not administrated (podána) on time or if the parasite is immune from (odolný
vůči) the medicine, the infection spreads quickly and can endanger life.
Medicines:
Malaria can be prevented by medicine which is called antimalarial drug and is taken before,
during and after a journey to an unsafe area.
There are two types of protection:
wearing a appropriate clothing, repellents, mosquito nets, ...
using antimalarial drugs; the protection is not absolute, but if the contagion is discovered early,
malaria is nearly always treatable
The wonder antimalarial drug hasn´t been invented yet. Most experts think that there is no
simple sollution. Even this, there is a cheap and effective strategy of treatment, prevention and
controle. This program is called Roll Back Malaria which is supported in Africa and other countries
that are endangered by malaria.
Malaria in Africa
All state programs are based on four elements of Roll Black Malaria: using mosquito nets, the
control of mosquito spreading, the prevention and theatment for pregnant women, early reaction to
malarial epidemics. In this countries is no necessary health care.
Malaria is the disease of the poorness in Africa. The desease badly effects the economy and
then there are no money for treatment.