EFFECTS+Malaria+by+Sean+and+Journ

|| HOME || CAUSE || EFFECTS || TREATMENT || PREVENTION || OTHER || CHOICE || NOTES || BIBLIOGRAPHY || Up to 350 - 500 million people get infected by malaria everyyear, and up to 1 million people die from it. After getting bitten by a mosquito carrying malaria, you would start to feel different symptoms occuring. some symptoms are so mild that people dont even notice them, but others are serious, malaria might lead to high fevers, cycles of chills, hemorrhaging ( bleeding), encephalitis, and even death.

Once you are bitten by and infected anopheles/ or a mosquito, the plasmodium parastie takes a while to make its effects known but once someone gets malaria, their first signs may be a sudden break out into a fever, then other symptoms may follow:
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 * pains all over
 * diarrhea
 * shaking chills
 * sweating prefusely
 * and adominal pains
 * nausea
 * vomiting
 * anemia
 * lost of apetite
 * tiredness

If malaria is left untreated, it leaves you with yellowish skinas the parasite digs up in your blood stream. the disease can then be serious, leading to vomiting, convulsion and even kidney failure.

You should often check up to see if you are experiencing any of these symptoms of malaria, to get it cured immediately before its too late. Malaria is easier to cure when just spoted, dont just ignore the minor symptoms, cause they eventually lead to more dangerous ones.

Quesstions: What are some of the first symptoms of malaria?