Question 1

What is the cause of plencenta malaria?

Accepted Answer

Malarial infection in placenta is characterized by sequestration of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes and infiltration of immune cells.

Question 2

Is malaria a viral or a bacterial disease?

Accepted Answer

Malaria is neither a viral or a bacterial disease.

Question 3

How can malaria be considered a waterborne disease?

Accepted Answer

Malaria is the world's most important parasitic disease transmitted from one person to another through the bite of female Anopheles mosquitoes, which breed in fresh or occasionally brackish water.

Question 4

Can malaria cause blindness?

Accepted Answer

Research is suggestive that neurologic defects may occasionally persist following cerebral malaria, especially in children. Such defects include trouble with movements (ataxia), palsies, speech difficulties, deafness, and blindness.

Question 5

What is a Malaria (Malarial Parasite) Test?

Accepted Answer

Malaria parasites can be identified by examining under the microscope a drop of the patient's blood, spread out as a blood smear on a microscope slide.

Question 6

What are the symptoms of malaria?

Accepted Answer

The primary symptoms of malaria include fever and flu like illness, including shaking chills, headache, muscle aches, and tiredness.

Question 7

How is malaria fever treated?

Accepted Answer

Malaria is treated with prescription drugs to kill the parasite.

Question 8

How is malaria treated and prevented?

Accepted Answer

Malaria is treated with prescription drugs to kill the parasite. It is prevented by applying mosquito-repellant creams and avoiding areas that are prone to malaria infection zones.

Question 9

Which part of the body does malaria affect?

Accepted Answer

Malaria can damage the kidneys or liver or cause the spleen to rupture. Any of these conditions can be life-threatening.

Question 10

What should I do if my child has malaria?

Accepted Answer

If your child has malaria you are advised to seek medical attention at the earliest.

Question 11

What does it feel like to be infected with malaria?

Accepted Answer

You may experience fever and flu-like illness, including shaking chills, headache, muscle aches, and tiredness. Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea may also occur.

Question 12

Which virus causes malaria?

Accepted Answer

Plasmodium falciparum is the type of malaria that most often causes severe and life-threatening malaria

Question 13

How does malaria cause jaundice?

Accepted Answer

Intravascular hemolysis and disseminated coagulation have been the well-known causes of jaundice in patients with malaria. However, malarial hepatitis is turning out to be one of the common reasons for jaundice in patients.

Question 14

What causes malaria and how is it contracted?

Accepted Answer

Malaria is caused by the Plasmodium parasite. The parasite is spread to humans through the bites of infected mosquitoes.

Question 15

Is malaria caused by a parasite that lives in mosquitoes?

Accepted Answer

Malaria is caused by a single-cell parasite called Plasmodium. The parasite infects female mosquitoes when they feed on an infected person's blood. Once in the mosquito's midgut, the parasites multiply and migrate to the salivary glands, ready to infect a new person when the mosquito next bites.

Question 16

Can malaria symptoms come back every year?

Accepted Answer

Malaria may recur. Some varieties of the malaria parasite, which typically cause milder forms of the disease, can persist for years and cause relapses.

Question 17

What should be the right way to treat malaria?

Accepted Answer

Antimalarial drugs include artemisinin drugs (artemether and artesunate). The best treatment for Plasmodium falciparum malaria, if available, is artemisinin combination therapy along with drinking plenty of fluids.

Question 18

How does malaria kill?

Accepted Answer

Malaria may cause anemia and jaundice (yellow coloring of the skin and eyes) because of the loss of red blood cells. If not promptly treated, the infection can become severe and may cause kidney failure, seizures, mental confusion, coma, and death.

Question 19

What is the difference between malaria and viral infection?

Accepted Answer

In Malaria, fever tends to have a cyclic pattern, occurring in episodes every 24 to 72 hours, depending on the type of malaria parasite involved. It can also cause anemia and an enlarged spleen. In the case of viral fever, the fever often known as febrile viral disease, is a widespread health risk that affects people of all ages.

Question 20

What are the similiar symptoms of malaria and dengue?

Accepted Answer

A few similar symptoms of malaria and dengue are pain behind the eyes, nausea and rashes.

Question 21

Is malaria possible in 1 day after a mosquito bite?

Accepted Answer

For most people, symptoms begin 10 days to after infection, although a person may feel ill as early as 7 to 9 days.

Question 22

Which one causes malaria, mosquito or virus?

Accepted Answer

Malaria is caused by parasites, not by a virus or by a type of bacterium.

Question 23

How does malaria spread?

Accepted Answer

Malaria is spread by the bite of an infected female Anopheles mosquito. Malaria may also be spread by transfusion of blood from infected people or by the use of contaminated needles or syringes.

Question 24

Why does malaria cause body pain?

Accepted Answer

Among the several complications, the effects of malaria seem to target the skeletal muscle system, leading to symptoms, such as muscle aches, muscle contractures, muscle fatigue, muscle pain, and muscle weakness.

Question 25

Can malaria be cured without an injection?

Accepted Answer

Yes, however, one needs anti-malarial prescribed drugs so that one can prevent severe malaria.

Question 26

Why is malaria considered a communicable disease?

Accepted Answer

Because the malaria parasite is found in the red blood cells of an infected person, malaria can also be transmitted through blood transfusion, organ transplant, or the shared use of needles or syringes contaminated with blood.

Question 27

What is the difference between malaria and bacteria?

Accepted Answer

The difference between the two is that malaria is caused by a parasite and not a virus or bacteria. Bacteria are microorganisms that cause fever and diseases.

Question 28

Why can malaria cause splenomegaly?

Accepted Answer

It can cause splenomegaly because of immune system responses.

Question 29

How to prevent malaria?

Accepted Answer

Use of chemical larvicides like abate in potable water and also use of mosquito repellant creams can help in preventing musquitos to an extent.

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