Hello everyone!

 

In this thread we will talk about malaria, and share our great knowledge with each other.

 

let me go first

 

Malaria is the most dangerous diseas, if you are infected by malaira you will die soon. It envades our immune system when a mosquito trys to play with our boddy. When it is done with its work, it lefts us behind with a disease named malaria. And we start thinking about to save our life, which can't be possible...

i thought malaria was curable

i thought malaria was curable

then explain it.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/q1/quinine.asp

 

quinine was the specific agent in the treatment of malaria

its italian for bad air. kills about 2 million anually, including 500 million infections. charles laveran disocvered its cause and won a nobel prize for it. vaccines are currently being developed but non fully effective. an alkaloid called Quinnie was origionally used to treat and prevent it but is now replaced by other drugs.

 

there, all that from 5 minutes of reading

Survival rates from Malaria are excellent, but are dependent, not surprisingly on the pre-existing health of the patient.

As an example we see death rates climbing towards 10% in Zambia..

http://www.fightingmalaria.org/zambia/Zambia_treatment.htm

while South Africa targets a rate of 0.5%.

http://new.hst.org.za/indic/indic.php/124/

There are four different protozan organisms which can infect man and cause malaria. Plasmodium ovalae, P.vivax and P.malariae cause recurring malaria, which doesn't kill you. P. falciparum does (if you are not immune). The difference really is that P.falciparum produces more merozites (the blood form of the protozoa) when in the liver than the others do.

 

The inital symptoms are the same (fevers, general discomfort, though falciparum is more severe), but the non-fatal ones let you off the hook after about a week. Unfortunately, falciparum goes on to cause cerebral malaria where the organisms block the capillaries in the brain, causing coma and then death.

 

Luckily, prophylactic drugs are available, though which ones you need to take depends on where you are going to. However, some of the drugs are a bit pricey and have unpleasant side effects (but not as bad as getting malaria.)

 

Developing a vaccine is problematic. Protozoa are more complex than bacteria or viruses, with much larger genomes. Also, the vaccine would have to be 100% effective in less than 1 hour, as that is how long the organism is in the blood for before entering the liver. With P.falciparum, if you miss just one, thats it. And of course, a vaccine would only be affordable to western holiday makers, who account for a tiny proportion of the people infected by malaria. But they would complain about the price anyway...

Hello everyone!

 

In this thread we will talk about malaria' date=' and share our great knowledge with each other.

 

let me go first

 

Malaria is the most dangerous diseas, if you are infected by malaira you will die soon. It envades our immune system when a mosquito trys to play with our boddy. When it is done with its work, it lefts us behind with a disease named malaria. And we start thinking about to save our life, which can't be possible...[/quote']

 

 

lol you portray it as if its some cuddly psychotic killer teddy bear.

It's his homework, methinks.

lol, strange that when my aunt had terrible lyme's, to the point where she was conscious about 3 hours a day, they infected her with malaria,and now she's perfectly fine!

Hello everyone!

 

In this thread we will talk about malaria' date=' and share our great knowledge with each other.

 

let me go first

 

Malaria is the most dangerous diseas, if you are infected by malaira you will die soon. It envades our immune system when a mosquito trys to play with our boddy. When it is done with its work, it lefts us behind with a disease named malaria. And we start thinking about to save our life, which can't be possible...[/quote']

 

Lets not talk about malaria.

Lets cure it.

 

http://forum.aidworkers.net/messages/141/141.html?1105057020

hey u know that syphilis earlier to antibiotic discovery was treated by malaria.

thay injected plasmodium so that it produces temperature and fries up the temp sensitive treponima pallidum.hey ....a person got nobel prize for that his name was

julius wagner von jaureg (i think..that is the right spelling)

 

u know the germans were the first to synthesize resochin(chloroquine) bayer did it...

helped a lot in world war.

 

allies got it when they liberated tunis and reverse engineered it.

 

ha hitler was a man....

 

malaria is some of the worst diseases of the developing countries

and i think its a lot better to use mosquito nets...

they are the best protection...

pyrethrum is not that good

DDT resistance is rampant...

looks like evolution

Wasnt being heterozygous for sickle cell anemia provides a natural genetic immunity against it?

ya blood group DUFFY too

that was the best thing malaria wont attck u then