8 facts about malaria

• April 29, 2024

The malaria Although it is a well-known condition, it still continues to affect the poorest populations in various regions of the world.

Therefore, in GetQoralHealth we show you 8 data that you did not know of this disease transmitted by the infectious sting of any of the 20 different species of anopheles what's in the world

1. Nearly 4 billion people are at risk of suffering malaria (almost half of the world population). The malaria is endemic in 107 nations, and the poorest are at greater risk of epidemic .

2. In 2009, 225 million cases of malaria in the world, according to Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations (UN).

3. Of the almost 250 million affected in the world, the vast majority are produced in Africa . Therefore, 53 countries of the continent signed the Abuja Declaration, which decrees the April 25 as Malaria or Malaria Day .

4. In Mexico , the regions traditionally affected by malaria are Oaxaca and Chiapas, although it is present in the ten states of the south-southeast of the country and all of Central America, according to Dr. Mario Henry Rodríguez López, General Director of the National Institute of Public Health (INSP). ).

5. Since the year 2000, 750 thousand minors they have been saved from malaria thanks to initiatives based on the distribution of mosquito nets, drugs and insecticides .

6. Only in Africa, about 10 thousand pregnant die of malaria year. But also, a woman in a state and affected by malaria , you can have a spontaneous abortion, premature delivery or fetal death .

7. In November 2009, Dr. Lourival Domingos Posan, researcher emeritus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) , received an economic donation from the Gates Foundation to continue his research on the malaria , based on scorpion venom . Your job is to use a peptide from poison called scorpion, with which the passage of the parasite stops mosquito .

8. Scientists Pasteur Institute in Paris (France) and the National Institutes of Health from the United States, have conducted trials with a vaccine called MSP3 Burkina Faso, whose initial reports offer "encouraging results" in terms of efficacy and safety in children, according to an article published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

In this sense, diverse are the organisms and institutions that seek the cure to this suffering. Such is the case of the foundation that sponsors Bill Gates , president of Microsoft, who announced that they expect to find a vaccine "partially effective" in two years and a definitive one in this decade.

Video Medicine: Malaria Lifecycle – no narration (April 2024).