Malaria

Question 1

Nature

Answer 1

• parasite enters bloodstream
• travels/ develops in liver
• cannot spread from person to person
• Evade red blood cells
• red blood cells burst releasing more parasites into blood stream
• bout fever, chills, and sweating
• common in sub Saharan Africa
• deaths from malaria concentrated among poor immunity and young people
• over 300million people develop malaria- 1-3 million die each year

Question 2

Causes

Answer 2

• Plasmodium parasite
• spreads to humans through bites of infected mosquitoes
• spread through female anopheles that bite at night
• infection

Question 3

Social impacts

Answer 3

• stress
• ptsd
• trauma/ depression from losing lost ones
• effects on mental health