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| Title: | Malicious Malaria |
| Authors: | Chawla, P. Cheena |
| Issue Date: | Jul-2010 |
| Publisher: | CSIR |
| Abstract: | The challenge is to develop a safe and effective
malaria vaccine but till then save yourselves from a mosquito bite and take
timely treatment if malaria is detected.
Come summer and then rains,
the terror unleashed by mosquitoes gets into full gear. The aftermath of a
scratchy, painful bite of a mosquito could be traumatic, if the biting insect
harbors the highly infective forms of a deadly bug called Plasmodium —
the malarial parasite. So much so, if left untreated, there may occur severe
life-threatening complications that often kill the victim.
This happens in most
tropical regions of the world particularly Asia, Africa, Central and South
America, where malaria is rampant and people are brutally exposed to the compromised
health conditions. On a worldwide scale more than 250 million cases of malaria occur every year, out of which about a million
victims die mostly young children in sub-Saharan Africa. |
| Page(s): | 41-44 |
| ISSN: | 0036-8512 |
| Source: | SR Vol.47(07) [July 2010]
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