Malaria

Mosquitoes are among the most dangerous living creatures when it comes to the number of deaths they cause worldwide. Their ability to carry diseases and transmit them to humans causes thousands of deaths each year and in 2015 alone, malaria was responsible for 438,000 deaths. The statistics are scary when one compares the number of deaths from mosquito-borne diseases to that of the deadly Ebola virus, which has recently killed over 1,000 in central and west Africa. The puny size of the mosquito…

countries where endemic diseases whose vectors can be eliminated by DDT are demanding its renewed use (Cox et al. 2007). In September 2006, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended the use of household spraying with DDT and other insecticides for malaria control. At that time, the WHO cited many reasons for using DDT for this purpose, including that DDT has a longer action time, and thus fewer household sprayings are needed, so that it is capable of repelling mosquitoes from inside…

“heterozygotes for the sickle gene are relatively protected against the danger of dying of malaria, as now firmly established through a number of clinical field studies from different parts of Africa” (Luzzatto, 2012). This means that patients with the defective hemoglobin that causes Sickle Cell Anemia are protected from Malaria. There are two reasons why the sickle cells help protect against the malaria disease. One reason is since the sickle cells have a short life span, the parasites are…

Before we get into the specifics about this disease, let us look at the history of sickle cell disease. One type of sickle cell disease is sickle cell anemia. Anemia means a few abnormal amounts of red blood cells. The name sickle cell anemia is first coined in 1910 by U.S. physician James Bryan Herrick. In one of his severe anemia cases, he found abnormal shaped red blood cells. He described them as sickle-shaped cells. By 1949, U.S. physical chemist Linus Pauling displayed that hemoglobin in…

Malaria is a disease that still exists today, symptoms of the disease, which can still be fatal, are similar to those of the flu. In ancient times, malaria was so potentially serious and difficult to control that it might be the most important the reason of the death of King Tut. To sum up, the reason of King Tut's death is the…

fever and chills. The parasite devotes the main phase of its life cycle in the salivary glands of the female mosquito “Anopheles Gambiae.” Malaria has complex life cycle but involves two host, a vertebrate host (Humans); and an invertebrate host (mosquito). Sporozoites of parasite transmitted by bite of female Anopheles mosquito (that has bitten someone with malaria at a particular stage). [5] When this occurs it migrates to the human liver where they undergo one or more cycle of sexual…

The Silent Killer It’s small, quick and hungry. It weights less than an ounce, and is about ⅛ inch to ¾ inch long (Mosquito, 2015). There are over 3,500 different species around the world (Mosquito Facts-33, 2014). This creature travels throughout the globe sucking blood from thousands of innocent people and leaving behind welts and taking lives. What is the most dangerous animal in the world? The mosquito. The mosquito can live in many types of environments, reproduce quickly, and can bite you…

constructed a question in regard to if a program similar to INCOSUR could be used in an effort to eliminate/control malaria in sub-saharan Africa. We decided to have one side of the room be for the intervention and for other side to play devil’s advocate. I then constructed a slide for the debate and included our full question as well as a map of the world showing the incidence of malaria across the globe. As a group we then went over the slides and practiced our talking presnetion and talking…

being circle, it becomes a sickle shape. This shape can have a negative effect, but it can also have a positive effect. Some negative effect might be pain, fatigue and death at young age. A positive effect is that sickle cell alleles are resistant to malaria. In this paper I will focus on the history, etiology, genetics, symptoms, diagnosis…

Ebola: a word that for many triggers a somewhat distant memory back to 2014 when the whole world was up in arms about it spreading and becoming a pandemic. This incident of outbreak in West Africa shows how far we have come as a world, technologically and medically, but also how far we still have to go. The severity of the outbreak was completely avoidable, however due to the disregard of certain factors not usually associated with disease, such as cultural practices, it became an epidemic. In…