Today the 25th April is World Malaria Day and the world can be proud of having eradicated this disease in mostly all developed and developing countries. Once it used to be a stock question in all quiz programs on the name of the particular mosquito that spread the disease. This disease is caused by the parasite that gets into the body of human beings through bites from the particular female mosquitoes.
WHO says:
Malaria is caused by a parasite called Plasmodium, which is transmitted via the bites of infected mosquitoes. In the human body, the parasites multiply in the liver, and then infect red blood cells.
Symptoms of malaria include fever, headache, and vomiting, and usually appear between 10 and 15 days after the mosquito bite. If not treated, malaria can quickly become life-threatening by disrupting the blood supply to vital organs. In many parts of the world, the parasites have developed resistance to a number of malaria medicines.
Key interventions to control malaria include: prompt and effective treatment with artemisinin-based combination therapies; use of insecticidal nets by people at risk; and indoor residual spraying with insecticide to control the vector mosquitoes.
In homeopathy China is an important remedy. I hear that the Father of Homoeopathy, Dr Samuel Hahnemann, is said to have first prepared the homeopathic preparation of cinchona or china. In San Jose the mosquitoes are big in size but don’t have the lines that are standard on anopheles.
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