What is Malaria????
Malaria is a serious disease that causes high fever and chills. You can get Malaria by the bite of an infected mosquito. It is transmitted through the female anopheles mosquito that has been infected through Malaria parasite.
What is the difference between Malaria and Dengue Fever????
Dengue and malaria fever are the most prevalent tropical diseases that spreads through the bite of mosquito. Malaria is caused due to a parasite called plasmodium while dengue is a viral infection. The incubation period of malaria is 10-15 days while dengue is evident within 4-5 days of infected mosquito bite.
What are the causes of Malaria???
Malaria is caused by parasite plasmodium species that are carried by a female anopheles mosquito and enters in your blood. You cannot get Malaria just by being near the infected person.
What is the Sign and Symptoms of Malaria?????
The symptom of Malaria includes:
- Illness with fever
- Sweating
- Jaundice
- Coma
- Anemia
- Muscles ache and headache
- Naushea, vomiting and cough
- There can be sometimes vomiting, diarrhea, coughing and yellowing of the skin and whites on the eyes due to destruction of red blood cells and liver cells.
What is the incubation period of Malaria????
Malaria can be develops in weeks, months or years after causing the infection.
How Malaria is treated????
Call a doctor right away if you have been in the area near malaria is present, and mosquito Bellavani is exposed, and if you get a symptom like flue.
How Malaria is diagnosed???
Your doctor will order a blood test to check for the Malaria is parasite in your blood.
How Malaria is prevented???
Malaria can be prevented by taking medicines but using medicines to prevent malaria does not always work. Avoid mosquito bites by wearing protective clothing over the arm or legs, using screens on windows and by using mosquito net.
Hence, there is much to be done in research of malaria and its treatment. The malaria is spread globally. So, the education to prevent malaria is greatly needed.
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