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Malaria is an endemic disease that affects people all over the world. It is more severe in children, pregnant women, non immune immigrants and immunocompromised persons. Very few countries have been able to eliminate malaria. A country that does not record any case of malaria over a period of two years is considered to have eliminated malaria. The United States of America (USA) is not on the list. This is because the majority of those infected in the USA are travellers coming from endemic areas. Mosquito Cause Of Malaria Malaria is caused by plasmodium parasites. There are five species of plasmodium parasites responsible for malaria. They are plasmodium ovale, plasmodium falciparum, plasmodium vivax, plasmodium malariae and plasmodium knowlesi which is the newest among them. Read Also : How vitamin c and iron reduce efficacy of antimalarial Plasmodium falciparum and plasmodium vivax pose the greatest threat. Plasmodium falciparum accounts for 99.7 percent of malaria in Africa, 50 perce...

Malaria treatment with Artemether/Lumefantrine Many persons fail to heed the counsel of pharmacist as to how to take their medications. Take, for instance, the malaria drug artemether/lumefantrine is advised to be used with fatty food. Very few people really do keep to this kind of information.

It is a well-known statement that 'prevention is better and cheaper than cure.' Prevention is the most important thing health-care personnel concern  themselves with.