Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by the Protozoan parasite. People affected with malaria often experience fever, chills, and flu-like illness. If left untreated, the person will develop severe complications and die. Each year 350-500 million cases of malaria occur worldwide, and over one million...
First world countries would benefit from devoting so many resources to controlling the disease by developing a vaccine, which can help lower the chances of malaria re-emerging in the form of Plasmodium vivax. These practices will help limit not only infections of malaria, but also...
Malaria Malaria is an infectious disease that affects both the human as well as a selected species of animals (Wiese, 2012). Likewise, it is caused by a plasmodium parasite through the bite of a mosquito known as the Anopheles gambiae. However, it is important to...
Although malaria has been proven to be both preventable and curable, it still stands as one of the top killers of African children, at a rate of two children per minute. In Masterson’s words, malaria is a societal condition that is dependent on four aspects:...
Malaria is an acute febrile, mosquito-borne blood disease caused by a Plasmodium parasite. It is transmitted to humans through the bite of the female Anopheles mosquito. As P. falciparum matures the infected erythrocytes adhere to microvascular endothelium, a term coined cytoadherence, they constrain vascular function...
According to WHO in 2016, approximately half of the world’s population is at risk of acquiring malaria (WHO, 2016). Figures on a global scale show that there have been 429,000 malaria related deaths and 212 million cases of malaria. Among the countries with highest prevalence...
Predators, particularly fishes like Gambusia, Tilapia, Poeciellia and Aphanius dispar dispar. Even viruses can be used to kill mosquitoes. These viruses are beneficial because they are species-specific, non – toxic to humans and easy to distribute. Protozoans, microsporidia, Metarhizium anisopliae, Beauveria tenella, Lagenidium giganteum, and...
At Fight Malaria, we strive to provide quality, reliable information on malaria. However, it is a disease that sadly has a lot of myths, lies and folk-tale surrounding it. This is dangerous and puts travellers and locals at risk of following wrong, unsafe advice. In...
Cross-reactions with autoantibodies: Studies have reported cross reactivity of the various RDTs with autoantibodies such as rheumatoid factor, resulting in false positive tests for malaria. Studies in patients with positive rheumatoid factor have shown that the false positive reactions are higher with the PfHRP2 tests...
