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Add 15 Years |Why do we need to know about malaria |

Why do we need to know about Malaria?<br>u2022 Malaria in India and in the world<br>u2022 Situation of Malaria in 1970s and 1980s in India<br>u2022 Malaria is a protozoan bug<br>u2022 Why do we get high fever and shaking chills?<br>Our ADD15 is a series of medical books to spread medical health awareness to enhance a healthy life. It has written in multiple languages and three different formates (EBook, Audio, video formats) in very simple words.

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Add 15 Years |Why do we need to know about malaria |

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  2. Why we need to know about malaria? We all know that malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes and basically it is caused by a bug. A bug what we call by medical name “Plasmodium”.

  3. Malaria in India Malaria has been a problem in India for centuries. At the time of independence in around 1950, out of the population of 330 million/33 crore about 75 million/7.5 crore people were estimated to be infected with malaria every year. More than 20% of Indian population!!! Means 20 out of every 100 Indian have malaria each year. Today, India’s population is 1330 million/1.3 billion/133 crore. An increase of 1 billion/1000 million/100 crore since 1950, when India became a free country (400% increase). I can tell you as an MD and it is obvious to me that increase was because of 3 simple public health steps factors- • Clean Hands • Clean Food • Clean Water

  4. Symptoms Of Malaria • Usually begin 10-15 days after infection • They can include fever, shivering, headache, joints pain and fatigue • Sometime suffer from Vomiting and diarrhea • Malaria is caused by parasite which are transmitted by female Anopheles mosquitos • The mosquito usually feeds at night

  5. Why is Malaria Dangerous? Malaria in humans can be caused by several different parasites – the most dangerous, and the one which is responsible for over 90% of the worldwide deaths from malaria, is Plasmodium falciparum. P. falciparum is so dangerous is because it affects the behaviors of red blood cells. Red blood cells that are infected with P. falciparum become “sticky”, and as they pass through the small blood vessels inside the body’s organs, they become stuck – this process is known as “sequestration”. 

  6. Why is Malaria Dangerous? As the number of red blood cells stuck inside the small blood vessels increases, blood flow to the organ is reduced, which can result in further complications. When sequestration occurs inside the blood vessels in the brain, the result is what is clinically recognized as cerebral malaria – complications can include impaired consciousness, coma and even death.

  7. ADD 15 YEARS TO OUR LIFE, CAN WE? OF CORCE, WE CAN!! You can also purchase our books for our website WWW.ADD15YEARS.IN Author (Prof.) Dr. S Om Goel MD From family of doctors from AIIMS & Delhi University MD Medicine U.S.A. DM / Fellowship U.S.A

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