Interesting facts about “MALARIA”

WHO recommends anti-malaria bed nets as the most effective and inexpensive way to prevent malaria.

Initially treatment for malaria was to administer the drug chloroquine. Over the year, breed of chloroquine - resistant mosquitoes started developing rendering the drug infective and multi-drug resistant malaria started.

Now newest drug therapies based combination therapy. Combination therapy is preferred over the conventional therapies because it is less likely for the parasite to become resistant and also helps reduced the chances of recurrence.

Even after you are cured of the malaria there is an increased risk that malaria can recur. This is the reason WHO recommends continuing for at least 5 days.

• The word “Malaria” means bad air.
  
• It was only transmitted by female mosquitoes.
  
• When infected with malaria, symptoms can large from more to severe. It can take anywhere from 9-40 days for symptoms to appears after mosquito bite. It can even take up to 4 years to develop.
  
• Early symptoms include fever, malaria symptoms with chills, headache muscle ache, nausea, vomiting, sweating. If not treated within 24 hours the disease can worsen leading to xxxxxx, impairment of brain and spinal cord function loss of consciousness and even death.
  
• Young children, pregnant women are particularly valuable to the disease when they become infected.
  
• Few studies say that drinking beer could increase your chance of malaria infection. Drinking a can or two causes your body to produce an dour that is irresistible to the malaria carrying insects.