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Prevention of malaria may be more cost-effective than treatment of the disease in the long run, but the initial costs required are out of reach of many of the world's poorest people. There is a wide difference in the costs of control (i.e. maintenance of low endemicity) and elimination programs between countries.
The malaria therapy (or malaria inoculation, [1] and sometimes malariotherapy [2]) is an archaic medical procedure of treating diseases using artificial injection of malaria parasites. [3] It is a type of pyrotherapy (or pyretotherapy) by which high fever is induced to stop or eliminate symptoms of certain diseases.
The treatment of tropical splenomegaly syndrome involve administration of antimalarial drug followed by prophylaxis for prolonged periods of time. This remove the add-on antigenic stimulus of repeated malarial infections and allow the reticuloendothelial system to return to normal.
Symptoms of malaria include: periodic chills and fever, anemia, and hypertrophy of the liver and spleen. Cerebral malaria can occur in children. In order to diagnose Malaria, doctors will look for parasites in Wright-or-Giemsa-stained red blood cells and serological tests. Treatment includes antimalarial drugs, however, resistance has been ...
Plasmodium vivax is a protozoal parasite and a human pathogen.This parasite is the most frequent and widely distributed cause of recurring malaria. [2] Although it is less virulent than Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest of the five human malaria parasites, P. vivax malaria infections can lead to severe disease and death, often due to splenomegaly (a pathologically enlarged spleen).
In early June, after symptoms persisted, tests at a different hospital made it official: Shingler had malaria. The disease, transmitted by mosquitoes, sickens more than 200 million people annually ...
The health agency said malnutrition in the hardest-hit region had weakened the local population's immunity, leaving them more vulnerable to the disease. People who contracted the malaria infection ...
The spread of this infection cycle then continues when other mosquitoes bite the same individual. The result will cause that mosquito to ingest the parasite and allow it to transmit the Malaria disease into another person through the same mode of bite injection. [19]