What are some of the signs of malaria?
The most prominent signs of malaria are fever and chills. In rare cases, one can also experience rashes and nausea.
Last updated on 12 Dec 2024
No, malaria can cause acute respiratory distress. However, it doesn't always turn into pneumonia.
Cerebral malaria is a serious condition. In adults, cerebral malaria is part of a multi-organ disease. Patients develop fever, headache, body aches, and progressively, delirium and coma.
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease caused by the bite of female Anopheles mosquitoes, which spread infectious plasmodium parasites into a host.
Malaria spreads when a mosquito becomes infected with the disease after biting an infected person, and the infected mosquito then bites a noninfected person. Additionally, via the bloodstream, it reaches the liver causing malaria.
Malaria is not easily diagnosed because the symptoms are similar to viral fever and other diseases. In addition, as it comes under the category endemic hence rapid diagnostic tests are not available to diagnose it instantly in countries such as the US and UK. In India, due to the tropical climate it is more common and hence easily diagnosed.
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