What is malaria

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You should know that malaria is a disease. At the beginning, malaria was very difficult to treat. In ancient times, many people died because of it. Some time ago, I read the news that malaria was rampant in many parts of the world. Let's share with you the common problem of malaria!

What is malaria

First of all, malaria is an insect borne infectious disease caused by the infection of Plasmodium through the bite of Anopheles mosquitoes or the blood transfusion of malaria carriers. There are four kinds of Plasmodium parasitizing on human body, namely Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium ovale. The emergence of this disease is basically incurable. In ancient times, it is difficult to treat it now.

Then in our country, it is mainly Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum; the other two are rare, and some cases imported from abroad are occasionally seen in recent years. Different Plasmodium species cause Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium ovale respectively. The main manifestation of the disease is periodic regular attack, body chills, fever, sweating, long-term multiple attacks, can cause anemia and splenomegaly.

Finally, we should pay attention to the supply of water, give liquid or semi liquid diet to the patients with poor appetite, and give high protein diet to the patients in the recovery period; appropriate fluid supplement to the patients with vomiting and diarrhea who can not eat; iron supplement to the patients with anemia.

matters needing attention

According to the weak links of transmission routes, we should choose economic, effective and easily accepted protective measures. Preventive measures are: mosquito vector control, drug prevention or vaccine prevention. In life to maintain good personal hygiene, do not eat some messy things, wash hands after meals.