Malaria Assignment

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Recommended: 6230.2 malaria prevention and control

With all of the modern advances in medicine and vaccinations, there is still a rise in disease worldwide. The media center for the World Health Organization says that about half of the world is currently at risk of Malaria. Even though this disease is a preventable illness, it takes the intervention of entire communities to help with the eradication of the vector-borne disease. Education is a primary intervention needed to help with the spread of Malaria. A global campaign is underway to stop the spread and control the vector, which is responsible for the spread of Malaria. Along with the education and attempts to control the vector that spread the disease, Science Daily has published the discovery of a protein that could help prevent deaths due to Malaria. Even though how malaria is treated, National and global perspective about Malaria because global efforts to control the disease and how malaria spreads and the environments that fosters the vector. New advances in research are allowing for a better understanding of the body function and the disease behavior in the body.
Transmission and symptoms of Malaria
Malaria is a vector-borne disease that is spread by the bite of a mosquito. According to National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (2014) “In 2013, 97 countries had ongoing malaria transmission, placing 3.4 billion people at risk for the disease. And in a globally connected world, even people living in the United States can be at risk. In 2011, nearly 2,000 people in this country were diagnosed with malaria—the highest number since 1971” (para. 2). Malaria is a disease that affects humans as well as animals. The mosquito transferring a parasite through a bite to the host; human or animal spreads this disease. M...

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...gs from this study will only further the understanding of Malaria and increase the diagnostic testing and treatment of the patients. I also believe as researchers spend more time analyzing the proteins, it will only further the understanding of the parasite, which causes Malaria and could ultimately lead to a cure. New advances in research are allowing for a better understanding of the body function and the disease behavior in the body.

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References
KTH The Royal Institute of Technology, (2014, April 23). Protein discovery could help prevent malaria deaths. ScienceDaily. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140423095158.htm
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (2014). World Malaria Day April 25, 2014. Retrieved from http://www.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2014/Pages/WorldMalariaDay2014. aspx

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