Preventing Malaria

Malaria prevention is updated by SørenThybo, an infectious disease consultant and specialist. What is malaria? Malaria is a very deadly serious tropical illness. It is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions. Worldwide, malaria is a major health problem with as many as 300 million new patients each year. In Denmark, 100 people return to illness from abroad every year. Fortunately, the deaths of the Danish people are rare in recent years, but in 2008 Danish women were infected in Gambia and died in Denmark without treatment.

Jamaica, Mauritius, Morocco, Oman, Russia and Syria are blocking the reintroduction of malaria. There is no malaria infection by mosquitoes in these countries. If this goal is achieved for more than 3 consecutive years, each country will be certified for malaria free. In addition, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, Sudan, Vanuatu, Yemen are trying to establish areas without malaria in some areas. Some countries that are relatively small in population and implement thorough anti-malaria programs seem to have significantly reduced the burden of malaria. The insecticide spraying activity of insecticide has also succeeded to a certain extent. However, in countries with many populations, the influence of malaria control is not so noticeable. In some African countries malaria has not declined despite providing prevention and treatment services to most of the population.

Methods to prevent malaria include drugs, eradication of mosquitoes, and prevention of bites. There is no malaria vaccine. In order to have malaria in a certain area, it is necessary to have a combination of high population density, high madara raka mosquito density, and high infection rates from humans to mosquitoes and from mosquitoes to humans. If any of these are reduced sufficiently, the parasite eventually disappears from the area as it happens in parts of North America, Europe and the Middle East. However, unless the parasite is eliminated from the world, it can be reestablished if its condition returns to an advantageous combination for parasite breeding. In addition, the per capita expenses for removing Hamada raka will increase with population density, which makes it economically impossible in some areas.