Malaria can affect many people around the world, about 3.2 billion people are at risk of malaria. But malaria often occurs in Africa, most recorded cases and deaths came from Sub-Saharan Africa. About 90% of deaths caused by malaria in the world occur in Sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria mainly occurs in tropical and subtropical regions which characterize most regions in Africa. Also, poverty, lack of knowledge, and little or no access to health care contribute to numerous deaths causes by malaria in Africa. The majority of malaria is caused by Plasmodium falciparum, which is the one of the most dangerous human malaria parasites. The most widespread effective malaria vector in Africa is the Anopheles gambiae mosquito, which is why malaria cases
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Symptoms of malaria were described in ancient Chinese medical writing in 2700 BC. Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was the first to notice parasites in the blood of patients showing symptoms of malaria in 1880. Then in 1886, Camillo Golgi established that there were at two different forms of the disease, one occurring with a fever every other day and one with a fever occurring every third day. Giovanni Batista Grassi and Raimondo Filetti were the first to introduce the names P. vivax and P.malariae in 1890. In 1897, Ronald Ross was the first to demonstrate that malaria parasites can be transmitted from infected patients to uninfected mosquitos. The CDC was the first organization to combat malaria; their mission to fight malaria began on July 1, …show more content…
Those individual are infants, children under 5 years of age, pregnant women and their unborn child, patients with HIV/AIDS, and non-immune migrants. But the main population burdened with malaria in Africa is young children. There is three reason why malaria contributes to the death of young children so frequently. The first being, an overwhelming amount of children contract cerebral malaria which causes seizures or comas that can kill a child directly and immediately. Second, repeated malaria can cause severe anemia, which decreases survival rate. Lastly, low birth weight, which is a consequence of women pregnant with malaria, is a risk for death in the infant’s first month of
Symptoms of malaria were described in ancient Chinese medical writing in 2700 BC. Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was the first to notice parasites in the blood of patients showing symptoms of malaria in 1880. Then in 1886, Camillo Golgi established that there were at two different forms of the disease, one occurring with a fever every other day and one with a fever occurring every third day. Giovanni Batista Grassi and Raimondo Filetti were the first to introduce the names P. vivax and P.malariae in 1890. In 1897, Ronald Ross was the first to demonstrate that malaria parasites can be transmitted from infected patients to uninfected mosquitos. The CDC was the first organization to combat malaria; their mission to fight malaria began on July 1, …show more content…
Those individual are infants, children under 5 years of age, pregnant women and their unborn child, patients with HIV/AIDS, and non-immune migrants. But the main population burdened with malaria in Africa is young children. There is three reason why malaria contributes to the death of young children so frequently. The first being, an overwhelming amount of children contract cerebral malaria which causes seizures or comas that can kill a child directly and immediately. Second, repeated malaria can cause severe anemia, which decreases survival rate. Lastly, low birth weight, which is a consequence of women pregnant with malaria, is a risk for death in the infant’s first month of