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What spreads malaria and which is the bacteria?


It is a female anopheles mosquito which spreads the malaria parasite called plasmodium from one person to the other using its sharp thing on the head to sting you and infect you with the disease which can kill you if it is not taken seriously.So you must visit a doctor immediately

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what am i supposed to answer?

Plasmodium falciparum actually and it is a parasite, not a bacteria!

My dear friend malaria is a parasite infection knowns as plasmodium, which has 4 subspecies .I t can spread only by female mosquito known as anopheles.For treatment chloroquine is the drug freely avilable with trade name of lariago.

Malaria is the most important parasitic disease in the world. It kills 3,000 children every day and more than one million each year. The majority of these deaths occur among children under five years of age and pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa. The clinical disease burden is especially high among these two groups as a result of immature and weakened immunity respectively.
AMREF鈥檚 Malaria Prevention and Control Programme focuses on these biologically vulnerable groups, particularly those living in especially poor and hard to reach communities. These communities often have limited access to primary health care and to simple and effective preventive tools such as insecticide-treated mosquito nets. In addition, they are less likely to have access to basic information regarding the disease and how to avoid it.

One of the unique aspects of AMREF's malaria work is that our projects continue to be formulated around relevant operational research that seeks to better understand how to ensure such communities access proven, evidence-based interventions. Such interventions might include: long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLIN), accurate diagnostic tools and effective treatment with new artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACT) and intermittent preventive treatment for pregnant women (IPTp) and infants (IPTi).

Operational research interests currently include:



The evaluation of new Rapid Diagnostic Test kits (RDTs) for use at peripheral health facilities and community level.
Developing innovative participatory communication tools that are picture and discussion driven for raising awareness about malaria at community level where literacy skills, especially among women, may be limited.
Testing novel approaches to malaria control among nomadic communities in semi-arid areas.
Assessing the feasibility and subsequent impact of home-based management of malaria (especially in remote locations).
Identifying and evaluating ways to expand antenatal care service provision (including IPTp) beyond the formal health sector.
Poverty and disease burden mapping for the improved targeting of subsidised public health commodities such as long-lasting insecticidal mosquito nets.
Integrating malaria and HIV/AIDS programme activities. It is now acknowledged that people living with HIV/AIDS are more prone to severe malaria, and malaria infection itself can lead to a rise in HIV viral load.

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