By: Estefany Coria

Most cases only happen in Africa About 655,000 thousand people die from it 86% of deaths are children Malaria can kill you in 24 hours

Symptoms

Fever Chills Sweats Headaches Nausea and

vomiting Body aches General malaise

Severe Malaria

Cerebral malaria, with abnormal behavior, impairment of consciousness, seizures, coma, or other neurologic abnormalities Severe anemia due to hemolysis (destruction of the red blood cells) Hemoglobinuria (hemoglobin in the urine) due to hemolysis Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), an inflammatory reaction in the lungs that inhibits oxygen exchange, which may occur even after the parasite counts have decreased in response to treatment Abnormalities in blood coagulation Low blood pressure caused by cardiovascular collapse Acute kidney failure

Current Research
The current research has shown that there is now treatments to prevent from getting malaria. This can include for early treatment such as combination therapist ( ACTs) Treatment for pregnant women (IPTp) Lastly a measure that can prevent infection (IRS)

Causes

Malaria is caused by infected person. the bite of a Causes Symptoms mosquito infected release of with parasites. In a The merozoites into the very rare cases the bloodstream infection can come Anemia resulting through the from the destruction contacts of infected of the red blood blood. cells Malaria can be Large amounts of passed from a free hemoglobin mother to the fetus. being released into Malaria cant be circulation after red passed down from bloods cells break the contact of a open

Treatments
Medicines usually can treat the illness, but some malaria parasites may survive because they are in your liver or they are resistant to the medicine. The combination of quinidine or quinine plus doxycycline, tetracycline, or clindamycin The choice of medication depends in part on where you were when you were infected. Medical care, including fluids through a vein (IV) and other medications and breathing (respiratory) support may be needed.

Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEDhe4MPEMc http://media.hhmi.org/biointeractive/media/malaria_human-sm.mov

References
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/malaria/understandingmalaria/pag es/symptoms.aspx http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/diagnosis_treatment/index.html http://www.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/malaria/overview.h tml?inline=nyt-classifier http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseasesconditions/malaria/basics/causes/CON-20013734 http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/biology/parasites.html http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/tools_for_tomorrow/research_areas.ht ml