QUESTION What are the short term and long term effects of malaria? ANSWER In the short term, malaria can cause a variety of symptoms including shaking chills, headache, muscle aches, and tiredness. Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Malaria may also cause anemia and jaundice (yellow coloring of the skin and eyes) because of the loss of red blood cells. Once treated, most people … [Read more...]
Malaria in Cape Verde
QUESTION Do you need to take Malaria Tablets in SAL Cape-Verde? ANSWER The risk of malaria in Cape Verde is very low. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US do not recommend taking antimalarials during visits there. In fact, the only part of Cape Verde where a few cases of malaria have been reported is Saõ Tiago Island, so if you visit there, you may just want to be … [Read more...]
What is the cause of malaria?
QUESTION What is the cause of malaria? ANSWER Malaria is caused by a parasite called Plasmodium, which is transmitted via the bites of female anopheles mosquitoes. Please read more information on our website: Malaria Symptoms and Causes. … [Read more...]
Who Discovered that Cinchona Bark is Medicine (Quinine)?
Question: Who discovered the cinchona bark as medicine? Answer: Tribes in the Amazon used the bark of a shrub called Cinchona to treat fevers and shivering; Spanish priests in this region observed traditional Quechua healers using this bark and started using it themselves to treat the fevers associated with malaria. Many centuries later, the active ingredient from this bark was isolated … [Read more...]
How Much Time Between Mosquito Bite and Malaria Symptoms?
QUESTION If a mosquito carrying malaria is biting you, do you get sick the next day? ANSWER No. There is a delay called the incubation period, which usually is between 7 to 30 days (depending on the malarial parasite the anopheles mosquito is carrying). The shorter periods are observed most frequently from P. falciparum and the longer ones with P. malariae. Antimalarial drugs taken … [Read more...]
After malaria treatment…..
Question: I had malaria last week.Doctor gave me Rezartrin Forte for four days(9 tablets). Now I am feeling very weak and lost five kgs. What should I do ? Answer: Malaria is a serious disease and one of the potential residual effects of malaria infection is iron deficiency, which can lead to anaemia, and this can cause weakness. Eating iron-rich foods or asking your doctor about iron … [Read more...]
Malaria Effects on Brain
QUESTION Does malaria affect your brain? I was 18months when I had it and I almost died. I didn't talk until I was 3 years old and have always had troubles with schooling. Now I'm 23 and for at least 3/4 years I've had problems with my memory and speech. I don't know if its new or I have just been noticing it more since I'm older and I'm still experiencing my learning troubles. So can this … [Read more...]
Diagnosing Malaria
QUESTION My sister had fever before 2 weeks, she take tablets, and then she is fine. Then after three days she had a urine infection, take blood test and also urine test, the test result shows malaria is negative. Now she has fever. Take blood test, malaria is negative. Can she be affected by malaria or just urine infection? ANSWER Since your sister had two blood tests for malaria and … [Read more...]
Signs of Malaria
QUESTION I don't like taking drugs, but since the past one month I've been very down with fever. My eyes have changed to yelllow, joint pain, I've severe pains in my ear, I have stomach and abdominal pain, I have seizure undere my feet, sores on my tongue, throat pain, heart burn, and cough. Please are these malaria signs? ANSWER Thanks for your question. Malaria is often tricky because … [Read more...]
Anopheles Mosquitoes and Malaria Transmission
QUESTION How are the Anopheles mosquitoes able to transmit human Malaria and others are not? What makes them different from the other genus of mosquito? ANSWER This is a great question and in fact scientists are not really sure of the answer. The ability of female Anopheles to transmit malaria is a quirk of evolutionary history. Other species of Plasmodium (the Latin genus name of the … [Read more...]