malaria

     

Malaria is a vector-borne infectious isease caused by protozoan parasites. It is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, including parts of the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Each year, there are approximately 515 million cases of malaria, killing between one and three million people, the majority of whom are young children in Sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria is commonly associated with poverty, but is also a cause of poverty and a major hindrance to economic development.

Trivia about malaria

  • Ague is an outdated term for this tropical disease spread by mosquitos
  • During the Civil War blockade, Southerners used dogwood bark tea instead of quinine in treating this
  • From the Italian for "bad air", this disease kills more than one million people each year
  • Most cases of this mosquito-transmitted disease can be cured by chloroquine & primaquine
  • Transmitted by a mosquito bite, protozoans called plasmodia cause this dangerous disease
  • New studies have found artemether as effective as quinine in treating this disease
  • A week or two after the bite of an Anopheles mosquito, this disease's symptoms may appear
  • The plasmodia aren't space invaders but parasites that mosquitos pass to man causing this disease
  • Span. missionaries in Peru found a substance in the bark of the Cinchona tree that treats this disease
  • Attacks occur about every fourth day in the quartan form of this mosquito-transmitted disease
  • At its inception in 1946, the CDC fought this mosquito-borne disease that was prevalent in the South at the time
  • Manuel Patarroyo developed SPf66, a purported vaccine against this tropical disease that still strikes tens of millions
  • Parasitic protozoa called plasmodia cause this disease; female Anopheles mosquitoes transmit the parasite to humans
  • (Her Majesty delivers the clue again.) In 2007 UNICEF Canada supplied 33,000 insecticide-treated bednets to help children & pregnant women in Liberia to fight this disease
  • Spread by anopheles mosquitoes, it's been called the greatest disease hazard of travel in warm climates
  • Researchers think they know why a blood disorder in the tropics protects against this mosquito-borne disease
  • London's Hospital for Tropical Diseases focuses on this mosquito-spread illness that kills millions yearly
  • This disease caused by a parasitic protozoan was once thought to be caused by swamp exhalations
  • In an ancient Indian treatise, Susruta noted the relationship between mosquitos & this "bad air" disease
  • PSI is a charity delivering nets to fight this parasite-caused disease that kills 3,000 African children a day

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