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2. Malaria - Wikipedia

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   Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates. [6][7][3] Human malaria causes symptoms that typically include fever, fatigue, vomiting, and headaches. [1][8] In severe cases, it can cause jaundice, seizures, coma, or death. [1][9] Symptoms usually begin 10 to 15 days after being bitten by an infected Anopheles mosquito ...

3. Plasmodium falciparum - Wikipedia

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   Plasmodium falciparum. Plasmodium falciparum is a unicellular protozoan parasite of humans, and the deadliest species of Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans. [2] The parasite is transmitted through the bite of a female Anopheles mosquito and causes the disease's most dangerous form, falciparum malaria.

4. Antimalarial medication - Wikipedia

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   Antimalarial medication. Antimalarial medications or simply antimalarials are a type of antiparasitic chemical agent, often naturally derived, that can be used to treat or to prevent malaria, in the latter case, most often aiming at two susceptible target groups, young children and pregnant women. [1] As of 2018, modern treatments, including ...

5. Plasmodium malariae - Wikipedia

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   In 1880, Alphonse Laveran discovered that the causative agent of malaria is a parasite. [2] Detailed work of Golgi in 1886 demonstrated that in some patients there was a relationship between the 72-hour life cycle of the parasite and the chill and fever patterns in the patient. [2] The same observation was found for parasites with 48-hour ...

6. Health in Ghana - Wikipedia

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   The is an impressive development from the year 2012 when the nation recorded 2799 mortality due to malaria, The current prevalence rate of malaria in Ghana is 8.6% in 2022 which is a decline from 27.5% in 2011.Since the start of the pilot program of the worlds first malaria vaccine in 2019, the confirmed cases of malaria per100 people has ...

7. Pregnancy-associated malaria - Wikipedia

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   Pregnancy-associated malaria. Pregnancy-associated malaria (PAM) or placental malaria is a presentation of the common illness that is particularly life-threatening to both mother and developing fetus. [1] PAM is caused primarily by infection with Plasmodium falciparum, [1][2] the most dangerous of the four species of malaria-causing parasites ...