Question 1

what is malaria?

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Infection: Malaria is a mosquito-spread infectious disease of humans & other animals caused by eukaryotic protists (a microorganism). The protists act as parasites within red blood cells, causing symptoms that usually include fever & headache, in severe cases progressing to coma or death. The disease is widespread in tropical & subtropical regions in a broad band around the equator.

Question 2

is malaria cureable?

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Yes: If diagnosed correctly and treated with the right medications malaria is absolutely curable. Right drugs, right doses, right length of time. Treating for the various stages of parasites--all this must be taken into account but good care does that.
Please also note malaria is preventable for many in the first place.

Question 3

what is malaria cure?

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Treatment options: Malaria treatment depends on the type of parasite (four types), the country/location, knowledge of the local drug-resistance, and how sick the person is from the infection. Drugs commonly used to treat malaria include   artemether-lumefantrine,  mefloquine, atovaquone-proguanil, chloroquine, quinine, quinidine, Doxycycline (used with quinine), Clindamycin (used with quinine). If concerned, see md.

Question 4

who can't get malaria?

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Malaria: People who never travel to endemic Malaria areas will not get Malaria.

Question 5

best malaria medicine ?

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Depends: There are several medicines for malaria.  The best one depends on the area that you are traveling through and the resistance developed by malaria in that area.

Question 6

how do i treat malaria?

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Several ways: There are several different parasites which cause malaria. Different parasites are susceptible to different categories of drugs. If the local doctors are not sure check the website of the CDCP for most up to date advice on treatment for all types of disease.

Question 7

how dangerous is malaria?

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It is sometimes: fatal. Plasmodium falciparum can be especially dangerous.

Question 8

how long can malaria last?

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Varies: Malaria reactivation from latent infection form plasmodium ovale  or plasmodium vivax can occur three years after an infection. Symptoms in patients with subclinical parasitemia have been reported decades after the initial infection.

Question 9

are malaria medications safe?

Accepted Answer

Yes: Nothing is without risk, but the treatment is much safer than the disease.

Question 10

how does malaria cause death?

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Several ways: Falciparum causes the organism-bearing red cells to stick together and sludge in the brain.  Rapid destruction of red cells at the same time can make you anemic enough to cause death, or kill you by elevation the blood potassium, or freed hemoglobin shutting down the kidneys. A variety of more subtle mechanisms can also kill.  Malaria is a neglected killer especially of the world's children.

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