What disease is malaria? Can it be cured?

1 What is malaria? Malaria is an infectious disease caused by plasmodium. It is spread by the bite of infected mosquitoes. This parasite breeds in the human liver, then infects and destroys red blood cells, and continues to breed and destroy. Among all tropical diseases, the number of people and cases threatened by malaria is the largest, ranking first among the six major tropical diseases studied by the World Health Organization.

The common symptom of malaria is that it is cold and hot when you get malaria, cold when you get up, cold when you get cold, and even a few quilts are warm; If the weather is very hot, even wearing a thin shirt will feel very hot. This is not a temporary thing until you break out in a sweat. Once suffering from malaria, it is as short as 10 days and a half months, and as long as several months. Most patients are sallow and exhausted, and may even die if they are not treated promptly and effectively.

Malaria is what people call malaria infection. After being bitten by mosquitoes 10 ~ 15 days, people will have symptoms such as fever, headache and vomiting. People call it "malaria", that is, it will have a fever for a while and then a cold war. If plasmodium invades the blood vessels in the brain, it will lead to the most serious cerebral malaria, which usually leads to coma. Patients with severe malaria may even lose their lives.

What is the current malaria epidemic situation? According to the information released in February of 20 14, there were about 65438+98 million malaria cases and 584,000 deaths in 20 13. Most deaths occur among children in Africa, where one child dies of malaria every minute. In China, with the efforts of medical workers and disease control departments for many years, the number of malaria patients in China has decreased from more than 24 million in the early 1970s to hundreds of thousands at present, and only sporadic cases have been found in some provinces, and we are even expected to completely eliminate malaria in 2050. So malaria is gradually leaving us, which is inseparable from the contribution made by artemisinin.