The Malaria disease

By Diego

What is Malaria?

• The malaria is a Mosquito infectious disease affecting humans and other animals.

• It normally causes fever, headache and in severe cases coma or death.

• The malaria transmission is caused by a mosquito bite although we can avoid it by using mosquito nets and mosquito repellent.

• Malaria can also be transmitted by a pregnant women to her baby and by blood transmissions.

Who/Where does it affect?

• This affects more than 100 countries.• Each year there are between 300-500 million

cases of Malaria, killing over 3 million people around the world.

• Approximately 2,23% of the deaths worldwide are from Malaria.

• 90% of the deaths are from Africa, and affecting mostly children below five years old.

Where does it affect?

How to cure and prevent it?

• Methods used to prevent the spread of this illness and cure are medical drugs and mosquito eradication.

• The cost of aid per year is estimated to be approximately between 3-6 billions US dollars.

New discovery

• In the nineties Manuel Elkin Patarroyo (from Colombia) discovered a vaccine, although it was only effective in less than 30% of the cases.

• But, in the past days there has been a new discovery that brings hope to the people, this is because the new vaccine will be effective in more than 50% of the cases.

Why do we need to know this?

• This great scientific and medical advance is extremely important because it saves millions of lives each year

• It is also important because it helps us see what is going on around the world.

sources• http://www.colombiaespasion.com/es/asi-es-colombia/nuestra-ge

nte/iconos-colombianos/245-manuel-elkin-patarroyo-vacuna-malaria

• http://edition.cnn.com/?refresh=1• http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria• http://www.bbc.co.uk/• http://www.anlis.gov.ar/inst/consulta/infecciosas/malaria/

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Thank you!!