Post on 05-Jan-2016
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What can we do to impove the situation?
• What exactly is Malaria?• Where does it exist mainly?• The Problems• The Organisations • What can we do against it?• Interesting Facts• Time for Questions• Sources• End
• Malaria is a fever-disease transmitted by mosquitos
• In the first stadium it can easily be confused with a normal chill
• There are several types of malaria
• There are three types of malaria
-Malaria tertiana
incubation time: 8 to 20 days
classic remittent fever, 2 days fever, 1 day without fever
-Malaria quartana
incubation time: 3 to 7 weeks
classic remittent fever, 2 days fever, 2 days without fever
-Malaria tropica
incubation time: 7 to 14 days
irregular „fever-periods“
• As the map will show malaria is a big problem basically in the whole middle of Africa!
• It cannot always be diagnosed early enough
• Some of the pharmaceuticals don‘t have an effect any more because the causative organisms are already immune
• The people don‘t have money to pay the pharmaceutical
• Sometimes there are even not enough of the pills to cure them
• Unhygienic conditions• Not enough hospitals• Some people don‘t want to
recognize that they are ill• It is nearly impossible to eliminate it
• You can buy a net in the web. For approximately 10 $ you can administer a mosquito-net to save a human‘s life as the mosquitos are mainly active at night
• Put a banner on your website! The more people know about the situation, the better it is!
• Donate money to officially and serious organisations like “Ärzte ohne Grenzen“, even if it is not inevitable used for malaria-victims, the money will definitely help people to have a better life
• Did you know that only female mosquitos are jabbing?
• Even in Germany we have around 1000 cases of malaria a year
• Malaria is one of the oldest diseases in the world
• Recently, the number of malaria-victims jumped up to 3.000 a day!
• Malaria is a problem of about 90 states in the world
• http://dgk.de/gesundheit/impfen-infektionskrankheiten/krankheiten-von-a-bis-z/malaria.html
• http://www.stopmalarianow.org/online-banner.html
• http://www.malaria.org/• http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/
sb-PBD-anti-malarial.html• http://www.eco-imperialism.com/content/
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