Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Malaria epidemiology


In this week's blog my focus will be on the epidemiology data of malaria in the last five years and its distribution. The blog will explain how much the disease has spread and how it is contained in different parts of the world. For example in the United States like i said in last week's blog, they have been able to contain it which leaves other countries vulnerable to the disease.

According to the world health organization (2014), there was around 198 million cases of malaria in the year 2013 with estimated deaths of 384,000. This data indicates that although some countries are far ahead in containing the disease, some other countries are yet to meet that goal. A good example is Africa where a child dies every minute from malaria. In my first blog i used myself as an example of how sick i was with malaria for a couple of times. In my country there are a lot of mosquitoes which unless one has a mosquito net there is a guarantee that one will get bitten by it at night. Due to the bad state of the country's economy, it has been so hard to eradicate the disease and the best thing that the government does is to give free mosquito nets that helps provide protection while sleeping. The video below has a section showing what a mosquito net is for those who might not understand. It also gives some statistics about the disease prevalence. 


 
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwYIyjwYluc#t=66   

The most vulnerable groups to malaria are the pregnant women who are known to have low immunity because malaria can cause miscarriages or even maternal deaths Also, small children under 5 years who do not have enough protective immunity are at a high risk (WHO 2014). In the United States like I wrote last week malaria has been contained meaning that it is not endemic like it is in other sub-Saharan countries. The only focus in the united state is to ensure that travelers are well educated on how to prevent themselves from contracting the disease. They first check with the government if the country they are visiting is at a higher risk of malaria then pre medicate before visiting the place which helps to prevent contracting the infection. (CDC 2015).




CITATIONS
Malaria. (n.d.). Retrieved April 22, 2015, from http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs094/en/

 Malaria and Travelers. (2015, February 3). Retrieved April 23, 2015, from http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/travelers/index.html

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