Attached article regarding how widespread malaria is worldwide today. current treatments are falling by the wayside due to resistance by the disease. In my next post I will show you what B can do against Malaria - it doesn't just arrest it, it kills it! How widespread can B prove be? Post 35476 by 4kids shows it pretty well and the following post I make shows how effective is B against malaria.
Posted by justfactsmam on IH
...no I didn't but since you asked: "...300 million to 500 million annual cases of malaria" and "...over 90% of the world's malaria cases are likely to go unreported."
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January 2002) According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), malaria is widespread in 100 countries and territories worldwide, largely in the less developed tropical areas of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It kills at least 1 million people every year in Africa alone. Of the 300 million to 500 million annual cases of malaria, 90 percent occur in sub-Saharan Africa. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports malaria is responsible for one in five deaths of African children under age 5 every year.
Malaria takes its toll not only in lives lost, but also in medical costs, lost income, and reduced economic output. The annual direct and indirect costs of malaria in Africa are estimated to be more than US$2 billion, (THAT WAS 15 YEARS AGO!)according to the WHO. Once seen as a consequence of poverty, malaria is now regarded as one of its causes. Experts say malaria slows economic growth in Africa by up to 1.3 percent per year.
Rural and poor people are especially at risk because they are least likely to have the means to prevent and treat malaria. Children miss school because of the disease, suffer physically and intellectually, and often cannot contribute to their families' income though agricultural work. The WHO reports that many families spend up to a quarter of their annual income for malaria treatment.
The carrier of the disease, the female anopheline mosquito, has become resistant to many insecticides used to control its spread. Similarly, plasmodium (the disease-causing parasite that is carried in the gut of the mosquito and transmitted through its saliva when it feeds) has become resistant to many of the drugs used to treat the disease. P. falciparum, the most severe form of malaria in humans and the cause of most cases in sub-Saharan Africa, is now resistant to chloroquine, the most commonly used antimalarial drug, in practically all malaria-endemic countries in Africa.[/colo
Another article even more interesting:
"According to Richard Cibulskis, co-ordinator of the WHO's global malaria programme, over 90% of the world's malaria cases are likely to go unreported. "One of the issues is that the data systems are weakest in the places where malaria is the most common," says Cibulskis. "For some countries in Africa, we don't have any good data at all."
While only 117,704 malaria deaths were officially reported in government records for 2009, the WHO estimates that closer to 800,000 people died of the disease that year."...and
Posted by justfactsmam on IH
...no I didn't but since you asked: "...300 million to 500 million annual cases of malaria" and "...over 90% of the world's malaria cases are likely to go unreported."
"
January 2002) According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), malaria is widespread in 100 countries and territories worldwide, largely in the less developed tropical areas of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It kills at least 1 million people every year in Africa alone. Of the 300 million to 500 million annual cases of malaria, 90 percent occur in sub-Saharan Africa. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports malaria is responsible for one in five deaths of African children under age 5 every year. Malaria takes its toll not only in lives lost, but also in medical costs, lost income, and reduced economic output. The annual direct and indirect costs of malaria in Africa are estimated to be more than US$2 billion, (THAT WAS 15 YEARS AGO!)according to the WHO. Once seen as a consequence of poverty, malaria is now regarded as one of its causes. Experts say malaria slows economic growth in Africa by up to 1.3 percent per year.
Rural and poor people are especially at risk because they are least likely to have the means to prevent and treat malaria. Children miss school because of the disease, suffer physically and intellectually, and often cannot contribute to their families' income though agricultural work. The WHO reports that many families spend up to a quarter of their annual income for malaria treatment.
The carrier of the disease, the female anopheline mosquito, has become resistant to many insecticides used to control its spread. Similarly, plasmodium (the disease-causing parasite that is carried in the gut of the mosquito and transmitted through its saliva when it feeds) has become resistant to many of the drugs used to treat the disease. P. falciparum, the most severe form of malaria in humans and the cause of most cases in sub-Saharan Africa, is now resistant to chloroquine, the most commonly used antimalarial drug, in practically all malaria-endemic countries in Africa.[/colo
Another article even more interesting:
"According to Richard Cibulskis, co-ordinator of the WHO's global malaria programme, over 90% of the world's malaria cases are likely to go unreported. "One of the issues is that the data systems are weakest in the places where malaria is the most common," says Cibulskis. "For some countries in Africa, we don't have any good data at all."
While only 117,704 malaria deaths were officially reported in government records for 2009, the WHO estimates that closer to 800,000 people died of the disease that year."...and
