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...]
Malaria Prevention and Control
Malaria Prevention Prevention of malaria can aim at either: preventing infection, by avoiding bites by parasite-carrying mosquitoes, or preventing disease, by using antimalarial drugs prophylactically. The drugs do not prevent initial infection through a mosquito bite, but they prevent the development of malaria parasites in the blood, which are the forms that cause disease. This type of … [Read more...]