What Does Malaria Mean?

Malaria is among the diseases that were previously considered as among the fatal ones and it is only recently that it has been being treated as a non-fatal disease. The disease is being spread when a particular type of mosquito bites a person and when the mosquito anopheles bites a person it takes out the protozoa from the affected person and repeat the process to inject it to other person to spread the disease.

When it comes to the literal meaning of the term, you can say that it is a kind of bad air. The word 'mal' is being used in several words to describe the meaning of something bad and you can find its use in malnutrition and malpractices. The next term is a simple term for air; literally malaria is bad air.

To avoid this disease you need to take some precaution and you must take care of the cleanliness in your vicinity. If you take care of the cleanliness you it hardly possible that you caught by malaria.

Malaria is an infectious disease caused by the protozoan parasite belonging to the species Plasmodium. The parasite lives in the stomach of the Anopheles mosquito, which is unaffected by its passenger. However, when the mosquito bites a human being, it injects the parasite into the person's blood stream.

Once in the blood, the parasite travels to the liver where it multiplies. In large numbers it then attacks red blood cells and uses these for a second stage of replication. The blood cells swell and burst as the parasites multiply. This cycle of liver to red blood cell takes about 4 days and, every time a large number of red blood cells rupture, the body experiences a violent fever.

Mosquitoes that bite infected people pick up the parasite and the cycle of infection and reinfection makes malaria very difficult to get rid of. It can be treated using quinine based drugs and artemether and the search is on for better drugs and methods of treating and preventing malaria.

A disease caused by a parasite that is transmitted by a specific type of mosquito.  So, you get the parasite when bitten by a mosquito.  The mosquitoes that transmit the parasite live in tropical areas.  This disease lives in your red blood cells in your blood if you get it and it causes fever, chills, weight loss, etc.  It is a very serious disease.  If you are traveling to certain areas in the world, people get various medications like malarone to take to prevent the disease from occurring if they get bitten by infected mosquitoes.  It is a very serious illness and affects many people living in certain parts of the world in the tropical areas.

I am 13 and I'm from Sweden and Senegal. Lol mixed race. Ive llive in Africa for 11 years. First Zambia, then Burkina Faso, then Senegal. I had malaria once when I was like 8. I got a lot of fever, it wasn't THAT bad. I just stayed home and rested. After abotu 2 days it went away. It isn't as bad as it sounds, aslong as you get it treated when it DOES get bad. Lol, now we take a pill every week, since ithe rain has started.

Malaria is word of Italian origin. It is derived from the words male aria which bad air. Malaria is a contagious disease that is widespread in subtropical and tropical areas. An astounding 300-500 million people suffer from this disease annually. It is responsible for the deaths of nearly three million people every year in Africa. Sadly most of its victims are young children. It is widely accepted that not only is malaria the result of poverty but it is also one of its causes in addition to being an obstacle to economic development.

Protozoan parasites are usually the cause of this disease. They belong to the genus Plasmodium. Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax are responsible for the most serious versions of this disease. However other related species like for example the Plasmodium ovale and Plasmodium malariae occasionally infect humans.

There are several types of malaria like cerebral malaria, refractory malaria and airport malaria.