Question

explain Malaria disease in brief?​

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Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease caused by various species of the parasitic protozoan microorganisms called Plasmodium. Malaria is a disease that man has battled with for a long time. The first evidence of this protozoan came from mosquitoes preserved in amber nearly 30 million years ago.

It is even thought to have brought the Roman Empire to its knees. Malaria was so prevalent during the Roman times that the disease is also called ‘Roman Fever’. Today, the credit for actually discovering the parasite is given to Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, a French physician. He even won the Nobel Prize in 1907 for his findings.

Causes of Malaria

There are many factors that can cause malaria, such as –

• Bitten by a malarial vector (Anopheles stephensi)
• Use of shared and infected syringes.
• Organ transplantation.
• Transfusion.
• From an infected mother to her baby during birth.

Symptoms of malaria

Symptoms of malaria are exhibited within 7 to 18 days of being infected. Common symptoms include:

• Fever, fatigue, chills, vomiting, and headaches
• Diarrhoea, anaemia and muscle pain
• Profuse sweating and convulsions
• stools.
• In severe cases, malaria can be devastating; it can lead to seizures, coma and eventually, death.

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