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Malaria
By: Theo Maceno
What Is Malaria
• Malaria is an infectious disease that is
transmitted through mosquito bites.
Malaria is caused by parasites in blood,
namely plasmodium.(World Health
Organization (WHO)(Malaria))
What Is Malaria (Cont)
• There are two main kinds of malaria,
Plasmodium falciparum (Sever and Can
be Fatal) and Plasmodium vivax(Mild But
continuous). (WHO (Malaria))
Infected
• Malaria cannot be spread between
humans. It is caught from the bites of
female mosquitoes. The mosquito gets
malaria from biting an infected person.
The larva then feed on the blood taken
from the infected person. The mosquitoes
then grow up carrying malaria, and the
females will pass it to the human that they
draw blood from. (yeyejessi Yahoo! User)
Treatment
• If it is Plasmodium falciparum it should be
treated ASAP
• In common areas WHO recommends that
treatment should start within 24hrs after
first symptoms
Questions
1. Do Mosquitoes suffer from malaria?
2. What Are Some Symptoms Of Malaria?
3. What Are Some ways to prevent
Malaria?
Mosquitoes
•No they don't suffer from
malaria symptoms they are just
carriers of the disease. It is the
female anopheles mosquito that
are the carrier.(mustlovedogs0
yahoo user)
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Symptoms
Some Symptoms Include
Not feeling well
Body pain
Cold like symptoms
High fever
Headache
Nausea
Vomiting
Pale and yellowish skin.
Symptoms(sever)
• Changes in behavior
(seizure,
unconsciousness,
drowsiness, confusion,
inability to walk, sit,
speak, or recognize
relatives)
• repeated vomiting
• inability to retain oral
medication
• inability to eat or drink
• phase of small quantities
of urine or no urine
• or phase of dark urine
• severe diarrhea
• unexplained heavy
bleeding from nose, gums
or other sots
• high fever (above 102˚C)
• severe dehydration (loose
skin and sunken eyes)
• anemia and the whites of
the eyes turning
yellow.(World Health
Organization(Malaria))
Preventing
• To help prevent Malaria
prevent yourself From Being
Bitten by Mosquitoes
• Control Mosquito Breeding
• Mosquitoes breed new any source of
Water
• Kill Adult Mosquitoes
Work Cited Info
• "FAQs for Malaria." SEARO World Health Organization
Report, Who Publications, UN Specialized Agencies. 23
Apr. 2008. 14 May 2009
<http://www.searo.who.int/en/Section10/Section21/Secti
on334_9762.htm>.
• "Diagnosis and Treatment: Treatment | CDC Malaria."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 14 Nov.
2007. 14 May 2009
<http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/diagnosis_treatment/treatm
ent.htm>.
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• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article443374/Anti-malaria-mosquito-savemillions-lives.html (Last Image)
• http://www.bloggingwv.com/wpcontent/uploads/2008/05/needle_pink.jpg
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• http://www.thesafaricompany.co.za/image
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