Malaria Essay

Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites found in mosquitoes that carry an infectious disease. It is spread from the saliva through a bite of an infected female mosquito. Only female mosquitoes feed on blood, so this is why females are the carriers and spreaders of Malaria. Once you are bitten by an infected female mosquito then it releases the parasite into your blood where it moves to your liver and expands. This causes your liver to burst sending the infection back to your blood stream spreading to other areas of your body.

Malaria symptoms start between eight and twenty five days following contact of the infected mosquito. These symptoms include fever, pain, fatigue, vomiting, nausea, chills, sweating, dry cough and headache. There could also be complications from this disease such as respiratory distress in adults and children, Kidney failure; still births, infant deaths, and low birth weight in pregnant women.

This disease is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions around the world including some parts of Africa, Asia, South and North America. It is found in impoverished regions where there is

For those who have the disease they are treated with antimalarial medications such as amodiaquine or lumefantrine. Normally after treatment the person gets better and no longer has the infection and can no longer spread it to others. There are several ways to prevent getting and passing Malaria around to others. For instance in some high rate areas they use mosquito nets which help keep Mosquitoes away from people, lower the rate of infection and reduce the spread of Malaria. Also there are medications such as Lariam and Malarone that can be taken to prevent the infection. Now with modern inventions there are repellents and insecticides sprays that kill existing mosquitoes and stop the spread to