Malaria kills more people worldwide than thought

Malaria kills more people worldwide than thought: research. 

WASHINGTON (Xinhua) -- Malaria is killing more people worldwide than previously thought, but the number of deaths has fallen rapidly as efforts to combat the disease have ramped up, according to a new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

    

More than 1.2 million people died from malaria worldwide in 2010, nearly twice the number found in the most recent comprehensive study of the disease. The researchers say that deaths from malaria have been missed by previous studies because of the assumption that the disease mainly kills children under five. They found that more than 78,000 children aged 5 to 14, and more than 445,000 people aged 15 and older died from malaria in 2010, meaning that 42 percent of all malaria deaths were in people aged 5 and older.

"You learn in medical school that people exposed to malaria as children develop immunity and rarely die from malaria as adults," said Christopher Murray, the study's lead author. "What we have found in hospital records, death records, surveys and other sources shows that just is not the case."

    

The study also found that while the overall number of malaria deaths is higher than earlier reports, the trend in malaria deaths has followed a similar downward pattern. Starting in 1985, malaria deaths grew every year before peaking in 2004 at 1.8 million deaths worldwide. Since then, the number of deaths has fallen annually and, between 2007 and 2010, the decline in deaths has been more than seven percent each year.

Researchers say the biggest drivers of the decline in malaria deaths have been the scaleup of insecticide-treated bed nets and artemisinin-combination treatments. This has been accomplished through the advent of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria & Tuberculosis in 2001 and the creation of organizations focused on fighting malaria, such as the World Health Organization's Roll Back Malaria, Malaria No More and Nothing But Nets. Overall funding for malaria efforts grew from less than 250 million U.S. dollars annually in 2001 to more than two billion in 2009, according to the researchers' latest estimates.

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PREVENT AND TREAT MALARIA

Guard against malaria

IHow ill If There's Disease in the Human Body. How ill, if you have malaria. Activity we would be distracted and uncomfortable. If we suffer from this disease, really how ill. Malaria is an infectious disease caused by plasmodium parasite is spread by the female Anopheles mosquito. There are many different types of malaria, which clearly there are 3 clinical symptoms of malaria, the most prominent are:

• fever (may reach over 40 degrees so that a lowering of consciousness),
• anemia (due to destruction of red blood cells by plasmodium, a sign of anemia is a low hemoglobin level),
• enlarged spleen (the spleen was not palpable in healthy people, especially in patients with chronic malarial spleen be palpated on examination).

Among the various types of malaria, the most dangerous and often resistant to malaria drugs is a tropical malaria. tropical malaria is also often attack and destroy the brain.

Doctors usually highly suspect malaria if the patient complained of body aches and lethargy, abdominal pain and sometimes accompanied by nausea, chills, high fever, and sweating and heat down. This is a typical symptom malaria.

In Indonesia there are certain areas called malaria-endemic areas (areas where many people with malaria rates) so that everyone who wanted to go to the region must take certain drugs that are protected from attacks of malaria, among others, local area Kalimantan, and Papua.

Protection and treatment against malaria attacks are as follows;

A.   For protection against malaria attacks,  
1.  Increase endurance by drinking a mixture of the following:

• 25 grams of fresh roses put into a bowl containing 250 cc of honey until all the petals to set, put the bowl in a container of water with a temperature of approximately 60 degrees Celsius for 1 hour, then removed, sealed container and stored 1 night, then filtered , enter the filtered water into a container made ​​of glass, save for 1 week, then ready to be drunk three times a day 2 tablespoons.
• Keep your water needs at least 30 cc / kg / day in cool weather conditio

2.  Create a mixture of three dried flower ylang plus 1 cup hot water, let stand until the water has cooled,   then taken every day since 2 days before entering the endemic area.

B.  Treat malaria,

1.   Heat treatment:

• 1 orange juice is squeezed, take water + 3 pieces of shredded or ground onion + 1 tablespoon of coconut oil, then add about 100 cc of water, is used to compress the head, around the navel and groin.
• Grass jelly drink 1 cup 3 times a day, as the sweetener may add honey or brown sugar.

2.  Treatment of malaria:

• Flowers 15-24 grams of dried sweet starfruit brewed with 1 cup hot water, let stand 10-15 minutes and then filtered and drunk two times a day.

3.  Treatment of anemia:

• By using a mixture of honey of roses as mentioned above.

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