In humans, malaria is caused due to the exposure to one out of four various protozoan species. All of them are transmitted by an infected mosquito, which is female. In some situations, the transmission of malaria befalls inborn or by blood transfusion.
Signs and Symptoms of Malaria-
Major signs and symptoms of the malaria are fever, flu-like symptoms, fatigue, body aches, cold, headache. Sometimes the symptoms are experienced in intervals interspaced with spells of feeling fine.
Malaria is also correlated with breakage of the RBCs (red blood cells) which later produces jaundice and anemia and can lead to failure of the kidney. In some cases, the infected person can go into the coma and ultimately into death.
It is necessary and notable that deaths which are caused due to malaria are absolutely preventable. The risk connected with a traveler getting malaria changes from one country to another country. If you want to travel safely to a country, then travel shots are a must thing to be taken to reduce the risk of malaria.
How to prevent malaria-
Unfortunately, there is still no medicine that gives absolute protection from malaria. Therefore, in order to halt the infection, an individual needs to receive some antimalarial medication and take certain measures to avoid mosquito bites.
Notably, the mosquitoes transmitting malaria infection mainly have night time feeding schedules. This indicates that they carry it and process of malaria will generally at the peak and dark hours of dusk and dawn.
- It is also very necessary to consider following measures to prevent mosquito bites. Some precautions include following steps-
- In case, if you are going to sleep in the open area ten use mosquito nets and apply permethrin to the mosquito nets.
- Use some kind of insecticides in open air sleeping and living areas.
- Use insect repellents that contain the correct levels of chemicals which are effective for mosquitoes, but are not harmful to a human.
- Wear clothing which is full sleeves with full ankle length pants and has been treated with permethrin.
In short, it is very important to take travel shots if an individual is going to travel outside the country because malaria is a very dangerous disease.
