Question

Describe the malaria disease in deep?

Answer 1

Answer:

Malaria is a disease caused by a parasite that gets passed into the bloodstream of humans by the bite of an infected mosquito. Only the Anopheles species of mosquito can transmit malaria, and mosquitoes pick up the parasite from biting a person already infected with the illness.

Answer 2

Answer:

• Plasmodium is positive agent of malaria. It is discovered by Charles Leveran (1880).
• Lancis suspected a relationship between mosquito and malaria.
• Ronald Ross(1897) discovered oocyte of mosquito and got the noble prize in (1902).
• Short and Ganham discovered the lifecycle of malaria.

Incubation period:

It is the period between the initial sporozoite infection and the first appearance of malaria symptoms.

• P. Vivax = 14 days
• Malariae = 30 days
• P. Ovale = 14 days
• Falciparum = 12 days.