Anopheles

chose to do my paper on it. I would one day like to go to third world countries to help with doctors without borders, and wanted to know exactly what I have to watch out for and why. Malaria affects two main hosts; humans and female mosquitoes, Anopheles. When humans are first exposed to the parasite is through a bite from an affected female mosquito. Once the disease has been transported to humans, it begins to grow and multiply in the liver cells then moving to the red blood cells. Once in the…

Africa is the home of many diseases such as HIV, measles, diarrhea, but one in particular is malaria. Malaria is disease cause by an Anopheles mosquito. Malaria can be spread from one person to another. Parasite known assporozoite travels through the bloodstream into the kidney and infects the blood cells. When the infected mosquito bites the victim, the parasites goes into the bloodstream causing illness. Malaria is harming a specific population group, which is young children. Children in…

As one of the “big three” global infectious diseases, malaria is spreading at an alarming rate. That being said, what are some of the biological, social, economic, and ecological factors that influence malaria? These factors are addressed by Jeffrey Sachs and Pia Malaney in their article “The Economic and Social Burden of Malaria” as well as by Randall Packard in the first chapter of The Making of a Tropical Disease. While Sachs and Malaney primarily focus on the economic, social, and…

Part 2: Health Issue Paper (A case study on Malaria) Magnitude of Malaria in Nigeria: Malaria is a disease caused by a parasite called plasmodium which infects human blood cells (A parasite is an organism that can only exist in the body of another organism for all or part of their life). In Nigeria 98% of malaria infections are due to Plasmodium falciparum. This parasite causes the most deadly form of malaria, known as severe malaria. Other forms of malaria present in Nigeria include P. ovale…

Parasites are one of the four major classes of pathogenic organisms that cause infectious diseases (Janeway et al., 2001). They are replete in Sub Sahara Africa because of suitable climate and socio-economic situation favouring their growth and that of their vectors leading to easy spread and perennial persistence of parasitic diseases in the population (Pullan and Brooker, 2008; Froeschke et al., 2010, Patz et al 2000). Plasmodium falciparum is the commonest specie of Plasmodium parasite…

Remember that one bug flying around your head, and all you hear is “buzz”. That bug could have had a disease picked up by another animal and could have pass it on to anyone. If only there was a bug swatter around. But have no fear a theory is here! Scientists have developed a genome to fight these diseases at their core. If the GMO mosquitoes work, it can bring a deadly disease into positions where it could be controlled. Dr. Michael Riehle and his assistants are using mosquitoes to control and…

DDT could save the one million people that die from the deadly disease malaria per year. DDT was an insecticide developed in the 1940s. It was initially used with great effect to combat malaria and other insect-borne diseases. It also was effective for insect control in crops, homes, and gardens. After news that the insecticide was perilous in 1962, the United States prohibited the use of it in 1972, as well did numerous countries. The use of DDT is advantageous to people because it prevented…

Harpreet Kaur (100297319) INTRODUCTION Chagas disease is a zoonosis disease and is caused by a transmission of parasite T. cruzi through insect vectors triatomine bugs to humans. The fecal matter of triatomine bugs which are infected with parasite T. cruzi is the main mode of transmission of parasite to humans. The main species of vectors which are responsible for 80% cases of Chagas disease in endemic areas are Triatoma infestans, T. brasiliensis, T. dimidiate, T. soadida, and Rhodinus…

Neha Kaushik EPI 610 Final Paper Prevalence of Chikungunya in the Emerging World Background Chikungunya, is an infectious disease that is starting to emerge in the United States. I am more specifically focusing on the Aedes aegypti vector that transmits this virus in humans. It is quite similar to malaria in its transmission process. This disease manifests as severe joint and muscle pain, joint swelling, fever, among other symptoms. The epidemiologic triad applies to this disease as the…

According to the article “When Mosquitoes Were Killers in America” by Lauren Tarshis, its shows many ways how mosquitoes are more than a nuisance to humans, but also to animals. Mosquitoes bite humans infected, and then bite another person who isn't infected with a disease and than both of them have a disease, or when animals have a disease and the mosquito bites them and then comes and bites the human than the human has that same disease and could die. “A mosquito bites someone infected with…