Can we prevent Malaria?
Yes. As we always say’s “Prevention is Better than Cure”.
Malaria can be prevented by taking the following measures:
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Keeping mosquitoes from biting you, especially at
night.
Taking anti-malarial drugs to kill the parasites.
Eliminating places around your home where mosquitoes
breed.
Spraying insecticides on your home’s walls to kill
adult mosquitoes that come inside.
Sleeping under bed nets - especially effective if
they have been treated with insecticide.
Wearing insect repellent and long-sleeved clothing
if out of doors at night.
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How do we get infected?
Every body can get the disease once bitten by an
infected female Anopheles mosquito. You can also be infected
by the following methods:
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Blood transfusions
Organ transplant
Shred use of syringes contaminated with blood. |
Normally the Malaria parasite would enter the liver and
grows and multiply there. After a few days or so, the
parasite would then start to wreck havoc on our immune
system by attacking the red blood cells. When our red blood
cell is defeated, it would then burst and this causes
typical high fever, chills and flu-like malaria symptoms.
Note: the above mention
measures are taken from:
http://www.cdc.gov/
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