Thursday, March 19, 2015

Children with Malaria die mostly from Brain Swelling

Malaria is main killer disease for infant almost in every part of world. A new research has proved that children who die with malaria are mostly due to swelling in their brains. Vaccines of it are not much effective and still with much advancement in medical science, mosquitoes still haunt humans.

Malaria is mostly dominant disease in sea shores, river side villages, lake towns and polluted areas. WHO has reported that five lac people have died out of 19.8 crore reported cases worldwide.


Disease is solely spread with biting of mosquito and transfers from one human to other. There has not been any vaccine that can prevent children from it. Or any dose that can strengthen human immune system to resist these mosquito parasites. When a patient is diagnosed, treatment is done to cure it. It can lead to healthy but infants and kids are more prone these parasites.


Africa is first region that grabs any new disease. Cerebral malaria has started from Africa and took thousand lives of children. It is sever form of malaria. When a person or kid catches this parasite, condition can lead to death or coma if he/she lives.

Health statistics of Cerebral malaria cases shows that 15%-25% cases die out of all. In this case if patient lives, situation can lead to disorder of personality like deaf and dull.

Latest research is published in The New England Journal of Medicine shows that 84% kids died from brain swelling. Cerebral malaria directly hits brain and causes it to swell which makes hard for doctors to get any recovery chances.

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