GAMBIAE Anopheles mosquito is the cause of MALARIA
The word "malaria" comes from the Italian "Mal", which means bad and "Aria" which means the air, so that "malaria" means bad air (bad air). This is due to malaria occur seasonally in the area and lots of piles of dirty water. In 1880 Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, found that malaria caused by Plasmodium, the single-celled parasite. A few moments later also found that the disease was transmitted from person to person by means of a female Anopheles mosquito takes blood to raise the eggs. Mosquitoes intermediaries in the field of infectious disease is called a vector, and the main vector for malaria is the Anopheles mosquito Gambia and A. stephensi.
It is estimated that 40% of the world population has a risk of malaria. Malaria is found in tropical and subtropical regions, and infected more than 300 million patients each year and 1 million people died. Africa, kususnya southern Sahara region, is the most risky areas, where 90% of deaths in the region caused by malaria. Most who died were children who durability body (immune system) are still weak.
Malaria can be divided into 4 groups, which each masingya is caused by Plasmodium vivax, P. malariae, P. ovale and P. falciparum. Malaria P. viva and P. falciparum malaria is a popular and P. falciparum malaria itself is causing the highest mortality rates. Is suffering from parasites and breed in the mosquito's body, and into the human body through the blood at the time of the Anopheles mosquitoes bite humans. In the human body, these parasites into the immune system, infect the liver and red blood cells, and finally back out and infect mosquitoes when mosquitoes bite humans. Inside the mosquito the parasites multiply and attack humans again returned.
Malaria symptoms appear on average 9 to 14 days after infection. The symptoms of high fever (fever), headache (headach), vomiting (vomiting) and other symptoms similar to flu symptoms. If not treated, or the parasites are resistant to the drugs given, the infection will grow rapidly and can cause death by damaging red blood cells (anemia), clogging the capillaries that carry blood to the brain (cerebral malaria), or interfere with other organs.
