What is the Most Effective Treatment of Malaria?
Malaria is a deadly disease caused by a bite of an infected mosquito. It starts with a chill followed by a high fever and could lead to damage to the heart, kidneys, lungs, and brain. Today medical sciences can answer all the questions related to malaria. Malaria is an infectious disease, but it is vector-borne, which means it needs a carrier to transmit parasites from an infected person to a healthy person. Anopheles mosquito bites a person that is infected with malaria. The mosquito draws the infected blood from that person. Now the insect has the infection and if it bites anyone, he/she will get infected with malaria parasites. National Institute of Malaria Research identifies five different types of malaria parasites. Plasmodium falciparum Plasmodium malariae Plasmodium vivax Plasmodium ovale Plasmodium knowlesi While all types of malaria have similar symptoms but Plasmodium falciparum could be fatal. It could lead to liver and kidney failure. Also, the patient could develop conv...