kevin mendez

MalariaHow little stings can kill

humansBy:Kevin Mendez

Standards

10d Students know there are important differences between bacteria and viruses with respect to their requirements for growth and replication, the body’s primary defenses against bacterial and viral infections, and effective treatments of those infections.

1c Students know how prokaryotic cells, eukaryotic cells (including those from plants and animals), and viruses differ in complexity and general structure.

Standards

10d -This standard makes sure students know that a virus or bacteria caused by a sting from the mosquito can affect the body. The body tries to take the infections out and sometimes can’t do it without the help of vaccine(s).

1c –This standard lets students know that different prokaryotic cells, eukaryotic cells, and viruses have different properties to them and generally have different structure.

What is Malaria?

Malaria is a disease caused by a mosquito named an

Anopheles Mosquito. This parasite bites a human and

infects it, little by little killing its victim.

What is an Anopheles?

Anopheles is just another word for a mosquito carrying the infectious disease, Malaria.

There are closely to about 460 species found, but over 100 of them are able to transmit this disease to humans.

How is Malaria Transmitted?

The infection first starts with the parasite, in this case the Anopheles Mosquito biting one of the two victims. After, the infected mosquito bites its second victim, leaving an infected area, the disease starts spreading into the blood cells.

What are symptoms of Malaria?

Some ways to recognize infection of Malaria include fever, shivering, vomiting, muscle aches, severe headaches, and anemia.

After this stage of Malaria finishes, severe Malaria occurs because of organ failures and abnormalities in victim’s blood.

Fever Rates after infected

How Malaria is treated(Vaccine needs)

GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals' (GSKBio) RTS,S also known as Mosquirix, is the vaccine that can treat Malaria which was finally made in 2011, over 13 years in making.

These vaccines have proven to lower the risk of children experiencing “clinical” malaria and severe malaria by 56% and 47%.

Areas infected by Malaria

It was estimated that Malaria caused approximately 781,000 deaths in 2009. Mostly from African children.

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