Malaria

Malaria

• is a water related disease
• transmitted by female mosquitos
• effects mainly Sub-Saharan Africa eg. Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana

Symtoms and effects:

• The malaria parasite invades the red blood cells in the persons body, causing them to burst.
• Symptoms include: fever, vomiting, nausea, flu like symptoms, shiveringand eventually death.

Prevention

• currently no vaccine available to prevent malaria
• drugs to reduce risk of malaria are availble but expensive and mosquitos develop immunity to the drug
• insect repellents
• a simple mosquito net
• various water treatment methods and wells

Statistics

• on average 2 million people killed by Malaria each year
• most are children under 5 years old

Effects on development

• Malaria is a result of poverty and a cause of poverty.
• People ill can't work and so economy suffers meaning no profit to buy drugs, mosquito nets etc.
• Malaria is infectious and so infects more and more people meaning even less can work