Transmission
Fun Facts & Stats
Immune Response, Treating & Prevention
100
The disease vector that transmits Malaria
What is the Female anopheles mosquito?
100
Prevalence of Malaria (How many are affected by Malaria)
What is, in 2024, there were an estimated 282 million malaria cases and 610 000 malaria deaths in 80 countries?
100
Clinical features of Malaria.
What is a fever, nausea, anemia, headaches, muscle pain, shivering, sweating, enlarged spleen?
200
Three sites of action of Malaria.
What is the liver, red blood cells, and the brain?
200
Range of Malaria (Where malaria is most seen worldwide.)
What is Africa?
200
Common characteristics of the plasmodium pathogen
300
Causative agent in most cases of Malaria
What is the protist plasmodium?
300
The severity of Malaria (incidence, mortality rate)
+100 for most recent statistics
What is 75% of malaria cases being children under 5?
300
Three main ways of preventing Malaria.
What is
- Reduce number of mosquitoes
- Avoid being bitten by mosquitoes
- Using prophylactic drug to prevent Plasmodium infecting people?
400
The cycle of transmission, beginning with the uninfected mosquito.
What is, the uninfected mosquito, transmission of parasite, in to the liver, into the bloodstream and finally onto the next person.
400
These Disney characters starred in a Malaria preventative animation.
Who is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
400
These cells of the immune system are responsible for fighting malaria.
What is innate and adaptive immune cells?