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Malaria's Medical Geography

vivax, P. malariae, P. ovale and P. falciparum, with the first and last strains representing the most common; the last is also the...

East Africa and Malaria

rates with an Eastern African child dying of malaria every thirty seconds (World Health Organization, 2002) - an infestation that ...

Overview of Malaria

fact that malaria parasites have built up a tremendous tolerance to the standard drugs administered to fight the disease. The ext...

Historical Impacts of the Disease Malaria

in World War II and those serving in the military in Vietnam. We have experienced this disease even more directly, however, right...

The Diverse Disease of Dengue, Plague, Malaria, and the West Nile Virus

malaria first received widespread attention when it began to affect returning servicemen that had contracted the disease while se...

Eliminating Malaria Through Geographic Information Systems

Across the Globe (5) With the link between the mosquitoes and malaria the main form of control has been to eliminate the Anophe...

Malaria and the Issue of Who Should Provide Vaccination Coverage

countries such as those found in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America. The U.S., however, has experienced the impacts of t...

The Role of the Medical Anthropologist in Controlling Malaria in Namibia

lack of proper water treatment and drainage systems, all of which contribute to its spread. In Africa in general, where m...

Malaria

the liver of the individual where the the parasites will mature, then moving on to the red blood cells (Davis; Shiel, 2008). What ...

Robert S. Desowitz’s Malaria Capers

too many instances, "Children come into the hospital with malaria and leave with AIDS" (Desowitz 16). To date, neither traditiona...

How Malaria Affects Children in Ghana

the horizon and treatments are available. Not everyone dies, but the disease devastates many. In exploring how this disease affect...

Malaria

to take both personal and environmental precautions against malaria, such as using insect repellent, which contains N,N-diethyl-3-...

Developing a Genetic Vaccine for Malaria

pathogen"; that is, they have to be able to counter the disease if it mutates (Ivory and Chadee, 2004). As noted above, its been d...

World Health Organization and Global Health Issues

most pressing concern was a thorough assessment of the health issues and problems throughout the world and to suggest ways of deal...

Feared Regional Diseases of South America's Chagas' Disease, Asia's Cholera, and Africa's Malaria

by which a person can be infected is from food or water contaminated by bacteria from the stools of cholera patients (Abramowicz P...

Malaria and Thalassaemia

In seven pages this paper discusses if malaria immunity can be protectively achieved by thalassaemia. Eight sources are cited in ...

DDT and Malaria Control

This research paper pertains to the debate associated with the use of DDT in order to control malaria. The parameters of this deba...

A Proposal to Discover The Reasons for the Low Use of Preventative Treatment for Malaria in Pregnant Ugandan Women

this incidence it is important that programs to reduce malaria are well implemented, but research indicates that in Uganda there i...

Nigeria - Health

this country (Hargreaves, 2002). Tuberculosis is another one (Hargreaves, 2002). It has to do with a lack of inoculations against ...

Educational Products for Health

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at educational health products. Sample modalities are explored using a hypothetical cas...

A Look at Quinine

associated with the treatment of malaria. As a substance, how does quinine chemically react? Quinine reacts in different ways at d...

Why Did Constantine The Great Choose To Build His Eastern Capital Where He Did?

sea and easily fortified by land was brilliant strategy. It commanded the trade route between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea...