KILLER PROTISTS

PLASMODIUM

• Plasmodium is a protist that causes malaria.
• Malaria kills around 2.1 million people a year and infects 550 million.
• Symptoms include: loss of appetite, extreme fever, vomiting, and headache.
• Exists mainly in Afirca and South America.
• Spread by mosquitos and exists in the blood stream. Eventually it clogs the blood and kills blood cells.

Trypanosomiasis

• Commonly is Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Symptoms: Fever pain, in joints and uncontrolled sleepiness.
• Finally the protist will infect your nervous cause confusion and death.
• Spreads when you are bitten by a tsetse fly.
• Also known as African Sleeping Sickness.

Giardiasis

• Is found in contaminated water.
• Causes diarrhea, extreme cramps, blood in urine and vomiting.
• Exists in the digestive tract.
• Steals bodies nutrients and eventually can kill.
• Infecting 200 million world wide.

Entamoeba histolytica

• Causes Amoebic Dysentery which is spread through contaminated water.
• Lives in the intestines and causes painful cysts, diarrhea and infection.
• Effects travelers in foreign countries, that don't have an immunity to it.
• Reproduces extremely fast and is mainly in third world countries.
• Will die if it ends up in the stomach.