| In this article the aim is to point out the various | | | | today are bad if not terrible. The last two |
| things you should know about Malaria. You will | | | | decades have seen a lot of publicity about Aids |
| learn what the Malaria symptoms are, should you | | | | with television coverage, and pop concerts yet |
| think you’ve been bitten, and what treatment | | | | Malaria goes by without a mention. Each year it is |
| and prevention methods are normally advised. | | | | estimated that over 600 million people and children |
| If you’re going on holiday or if you’re | | | | will suffer from Malaria, and at a guess the death |
| going to be working in malarial areas most travel | | | | rate is something up to 3 million. |
| companies and Doctors will advise what sort of | | | | This figure cannot be accurate as many people |
| precaution and prevention you will need. Some of | | | | that suffer will never even see a Doctor as they |
| preventive drugs can have side affects but it will | | | | live out in poor communities far away from |
| be certainly worth the risk rather than catching | | | | medical help. |
| Malaria, and the most frightening thing for most | | | | For prevention you must get the most up to |
| people is that it can take a week before any | | | | date information from your Doctor who will |
| Malaria symptoms can be detected. | | | | advise what precaution as far as different |
| In normal circumstances it’s the female | | | | vaccines. You must also make sure you have the |
| mosquito of the Anopheles species that bites | | | | right sort of netting for your bedding, and be sure |
| someone and then passes on a parasite by the | | | | to have some form of replant. |
| name of Plasmodium. Once this parasite is inside | | | | The main malaria symptoms are as follows and |
| of you it travels in your blood till it reaches the | | | | this is bearing in mind that you have been bitten |
| liver, and from there it will enter the blood stream | | | | by the Anopheles species. Headaches, nausea, |
| again where it attacks the red blood cells that | | | | fever, vomiting and flu like symptoms. If you do |
| feed oxygen around our bodies. | | | | suspect that you have been bitten be sure to |
| Many of the diseases that affect the human body | | | | seek medical help. |