What is the most effective way to prevent malaria?

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Malaria is a global acute parasitic infectious disease caused by Plasmodium and transmitted by Anopheles. Worldwide, the number of patients with clinical symptoms alone is between 300 million and 500 million every year, while the number of deaths due to malaria is between one and three million every year, most of which are children. Children, pregnant women, tourists and new immigrants are vulnerable to malaria because of their poor immunity to local malaria. The main epidemic areas of malaria are the tropical areas in Central Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Northern South America, among which Africa is the most prevalent. As far as China is concerned, the main epidemic area of malaria is in the jungle mountainous areas of central and South China, but the epidemic situation is much lighter than that in Africa. Tell you about me.

What is the most effective way to prevent malaria?

It is a kind of prevention method to fill wetlands and destroy virgin forests, but this kind of ecological destruction method will cause more problems. It is difficult to cure malaria mosquitoes (Anopheles) in these areas. Human beings should avoid malaria infection, mainly to avoid mosquito bites.

Avoid staying in virgin forests and streams. Use insecticides, but be careful of ecological damage and mosquito resistance. Before going to malaria endemic areas, we should take preventive measures, such as asking doctors to prescribe quinine drugs for prevention.

If you need to go to the countryside or forest, try to avoid the active period of Anopheles in the morning or dusk. Wear light colored long sleeve clothes, trousers and hats to reduce skin exposure. Use mosquito net, mosquito repellent incense and other mosquito control measures; The mosquito net soaked with insecticide is better.

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In terms of exterminating larvae and larvae of Anopheles, it can remove weeds and remove obstacles such as stones in some rivers, so as to speed up the flow of rivers. The mosquito killer can be sprayed on the wall of the room indoors. Because mosquitoes tend to bite people's blood and then adhere to the wall for rest and digestion, the mosquito killing agent left on the wall can kill mosquitoes.