Malaria is a serious and sometimes life-threatening disease spread by mosquitoes. Usually present in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Central and South America, it’s thought that around600,000 people die everyyear due to malaria exposure. Fortunately, there are several ways to reduce your r...
Malaria is a disease as old as humankind, yet we may be closer than ever to eliminating it, says medical entomologist Abdoulaye Diabaté. He explains the potential of "gene drive" technology — which aims to disrupt mosquito reproduction as a means...
journey and the areas you have been to. Although infection with malaria usually causes symptoms within 1 or 2 weeks, it could take a lot longer (up to a year) for the disease to break out. Even if you have done everything right, there always remains a small risk of getting malaria. ...
Malaria can occur if a mosquito infected with the Plasmodium parasite bites you. There are four kinds of malaria parasites that can infect humans:Plasmodium vivax, P.ovale, P.malariae, and P. What are the ways to prevent malaria? To avoid being bitten: Stay somewhere that has effective air...
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Children in Mali (and many other regions where malaria is common) are infected with malaria parasites more than 100 times a year, but they get sick with malaria fever only a few times. To understand how the immune system manages to prevent malaria fever in most cases, Peter Crompton, from...
Background The diagnosis and management of malaria in non-endemic countries presents a continuing challenge. Plasmodium falciparum, which is capable of rapidly inducing severe and life-threatening multiorgan disease, is the species most frequently diagnosed in Europe and North America. Objectives To ...
How to Prevent Disease Transmission Instructor Artem Cheprasov Artem has a doctor of veterinary medicine degree. Cite this lesson In this lesson, you will learn about many of the ways by which you can help prevent the transmission of potentially deadly diseases at home, at work, or in scho...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there is currently no vaccine to prevent the Zika Virus. While there have been a few cases shown inside the United States, we should not expect a large spread as it has in Brazil. Nearly all of these cases are related to...
The findings, published today inNature, could also be significant in the wider battle against malaria. Because the surface tension of human redbloodcellsincreases as they age, it may be possible to design drugs that imitate thisnatural processto preventmalaria infectionor reduce its severity. ...