Malaria
Published on Nov 22, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
SYMPTOMS
- Moderate to severe shaking chills
- High fever
- Profuse sweating as body temperature falls
- Headache
- Diarrhea
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SYMPTOMS
- The release of merozoites into the bloodstream
- travel through the bloodstream to the liver
- enter the bloodstream and infect red blood cells.
- The parasites multiply inside the red blood cells
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TREATMENT
- Medical care, including fluids through a vein (IV)
- other medications and breathing support may be needed.
- medication depends in part on where you were when you were infected.
- Mefloquine or artesunate
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WHERE IS MALARIA FOUND
- Malaria is found throughout the world’s tropical and sub-tropical areas
- mainly in Central and South America, Africa, Asia
- It is most common in tropical regions
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IS MALARIA CONTAGEOUS
- Is malaria a contagious disease? No.
- Malaria is not spread from person to person like a cold or the flu,
- it cannot be sexually transmitted
- You cannot get malaria from casual contact with malaria-infected people
- such as sitting next to someone who has malaria.
What is Malaria?
Early symptoms are non-specific and can easily be mistaken for those of influenza. Rapid diagnosis and early treatment are important, particularly for falciparum malaria, which is fatal in up to 20 percent of infected people and can kill within 24 hours. Symptoms can begin a month or more after the infecting mosquito bite. Drugs taken for prevention are not 100 percent effective. In Sub-Saharan Africa the important strain of malaria is Plasmodium falciparum, which can cause fatal infections.
Early symptoms are non-specific and can easily be mistaken for those of influenza. Rapid diagnosis and early treatment are important, particularly for falciparum malaria, which is fatal in up to 20 percent of infected people and can kill within 24 hours. Symptoms can begin a month or more after the infecting mosquito bite. Drugs taken for prevention are not 100 percent effective. In Sub-Saharan Africa the important strain of malaria is Plasmodium falciparum, which can cause fatal infections.
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PREVENTIONS
- Repellant
- Covering your skin.
- Sleeping under a net
- Spraying your home.
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