Category: Malaria

How Nurses Should Deal with Patients with Malaria Without Contracting the Disease Abstract Malaria is one of the major health issues faced on a global level and must be dealt with utmost care. Malaria can progress at a very fast rate, and patients can subsequently become too sick to even take medication by mouth. But…

Malaria is a serious tropical disease spread by mosquitoes. If it isn’t diagnosed and treated promptly, it can be fatal. A single mosquito bite is all it takes for someone to become infected. Malaria is found in more than 100 countries, mainly in tropical regions of the world, including: Large areas of Africa and Asia…

Current impact Outbreaks of malaria affect many areas of life, such as public health, economics and the prosperity of a nation. Between 2010 and 2016, the worldwide mortality rate of malaria reduced by 25% (CDC 2019). According to the World Malaria Report for 2018, out of the 219 million reported cases in 2017, 11 countries…

Rationale This report investigates the claim countries that follow quarantine methods are not rigorous enough for malarial prevention. In order to do that, it requires consideration of multiple detailed aspects of the claim. The first aspect to be considered is the assertion that rigorous enough is a relevant factor in determining how malaria prevention can…

For this assignment I have chosen to focus on malaria because it is a disease that I am not very well oriented with. I viewed this as an opportunity to better inform myself on this disease and started out by writing down a short list of areas and topics that I would like to look…

INTRODUCTION The world Health Organization reports that of the top 10 causes of death in low income countries Malaria ranked at position 6, with an alarming crude death rate of 45,000 per 100,000 of the population.1 Malaria is a life-threatening mosquito-borne parasitic infection with protozoa of the genus Plasmodium that is transmitted by the female…

Malaria is kind of infectious disease that affects humans and other animals. It cause by a kind of parasite that transmitted to people through one bite of the female anopheles mosquitoes. Malaria leads to 600,000 deaths globally each year, malaria is mostly found in sub-Saharan Africa. 90% of deaths occur in Sub-Saharan Africa mainly children…

Abstract Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) resolve the smallest degree of genetic difference between individuals and in the post-genomic era are increasingly being used to identify genetic markers for complex disease traits (Cargill M et al). SNPs at the TNF can be identified to be associated with the pathogenesis of Plasmodium falciparum. A large body of…

Abstract Background: Malaria is an endemic disease in Keerom Regency, Papua Province which is influenced by age, sex, education, socio-economic, use of mosquito repellent, use of insecticide-treated bed nets, wire mesh installation, house walls, puddles, presence of large animal cages and distances house with a place breeding Objective: To determine the risk factors for malaria…

Indonesia targets malaria elimination in 2030 and in the Ministry of Health’s Strategic Plan In 2015-2019 malaria elimination is one of the targeted diseases to reduce the illness rate from 2 per thousand population to 1 per 1,000 population. The target of malaria elimination in Indonesia in 2019 from the 2012 results of 212 increased…