Malaria is a disease caused by a parasite that lives both in mosquitoes and humans (9). Malaria lives in tropical and sub-tropical areas such as Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Haiti, India, The Dominican Republic, Africa, Papua New Guinea, and Central and South America (3). Malaria is one of the major diseases found around the world. About one out of every twenty people on earth, almost 300 million people, suffer from malaria every year. Almost two million of those 300 million people die each year from this disease. Many new drugs are being tested to prevent malaria but no definite vaccine has been discovered (1).
Malaria has threatened this earth since the mid-Pleistocene age. However, no one knows for certain just when malaria showed up in the Western Hemisphere. Many scientists say that malaria roamed the New World before the Europeans. Yet others will say that the Western Hemisphere had no contact with malaria until the end of the fifteenth century. Many other diseases similar in destruction to malaria were brought over from Europe and Africa (5). Malaria limited colonization all over the world. West Africa and Northern Australia were major hot spots for malaria attacks during the colonization of those
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Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 1995. This fever is often escorted by coughing, headache, backache, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and delirium. Spring House, Pennsylvania: Spring House Corporation, 1993. Earlier theories on malaria included an idea by Alphonse Laveran in 1880, who claimed that malaria came form the mud. The new era of malariology came in the last two decades of the nineteenth century (5). Some of the Plasmodia will then infect other mosquitoes when they bite the human host, repeating the process for another unfortunate fellow (6). This process happens first in the liver cells then reproduction happens in the red blood cells (9). DDT was extremely successful especially in India where a DDT spraying program brought malaria cases down by thousands in 1950. Connecticut: Appleton and Lage, 1996. They were very useful in the treatment of malaria.
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