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

And many others…

• 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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