Malaria3


 * Summer Lynne Araujo**


 * __Summary__**

My little episodes are about someone named Doctor Julia speaking with a woman named Lily who is sent on missions by her. Lily goes to other countries like Africa to help people with the disease malaria. She explains to Dr. Julia about her visit, what she saw, and what she learned. This is set in the present time period and they are in an office at the John Hopkins institute for malaria.

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Overview: · Is a plasmodium protist that is caused by a parasite that infects a mosquito · Common areas where the disease is passed is in Sub Sahara Africa and South Asia · 1,500 cases in US each year
 * __Outline__**

Pathology: · changes in blood, blood forming system, spleen, and liver · the parasite infects a mosquito and the mosquito transfers it to others. · Exoerythrocytic and erythrocytic phases o This is when the disease infects the body · The increasing population of the parasite and infected mosquitoes keeps the disease going

Symptoms: · Chills, fever, sweating, cough, headache nausea, vomiting, and muscle pain.

Acquisition: · The most common passing of the disease is by the female anopheles mosquito. · This disease can also be transmitted through blood transfusions that have been stored for up to 5 days · When a baby is in the mothers womb it is also very likely to contract the disease from its mother. · People who share syringes and needles to do drugs can also get this disease from another person

Diagnosis: · Doctors will give you a blood test and put it in a microscopic or non-microscopic test. · They will do the peripheral smear study or quantitative Buffy coat test (QBC) · Immunochromatographic tests o when they capture parasite antigens from peripheral blood · Rapid malaria test

Treatment: · Anti malarial drugs that has to be prescribed by a doctor · shots and vaccines o don’t have vaccine to fully protect

Mortality Rate: · 98% in Asia and Saharan Africa die each year · kills more than 3 million people each year out of the 200 million that do get infected

Prevention: · Take medications that help prevent the disease o even if your pregnant the disease can do worse damage then the medication · avoid mosquito bites by wearing protective clothing, putting screens on windows, and wearing bug repellant. · Suggested drug is chloroquine · Scientists are trying to make enironments with less dangerous/ populated moquitoes. Other: · They have not yet found a vaccine to help keep immune to the disease, but have vaccines that can help from making the disease persist or worsen. · People who have HIV infections are less likely capable of getting this disease or be effected by it.

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