| I am Malaria, an infectious disease. Every year I kill | | | | specialty - Like I mentioned before I have chosen |
| approximately one point three million humans, and | | | | mosquitos and in particular the females ones to get |
| infect another 350-500 million. My work is mostly in | | | | around. When a female bites a person(if they have |
| the tropics where favorable climates and lifestyles aid | | | | the correct sporozoites in their salivary glands, they |
| in my process. Over 85% of deaths occur in | | | | will transfer the me, the virus, into the remote human |
| Sub-Saharan Africa. Do I have your attention?Why I | | | | body. I will then work my way into the liver where I |
| exist - I exist because as a result of the protozoan | | | | will multiply inside of the hepatic liver cells. It is there |
| parasite. My mode of transit between humans for | | | | where I will turn into merozoites, and enter into red |
| transmission is by mosquitos. Mosquitos are favorable | | | | blood cells, where I will continue to multiple. |
| as they are vast and persistent in their work, as I | | | | Sometimes if a relationship goes sour witin a red |
| am in mine. Although everyone is vulnerable to my | | | | blood cell, I will break out, and move on. It is at this |
| attacks, it is pregnant women and infants under the | | | | point of "break out" in which you will begin to |
| age of five that I have the most success with. A | | | | experience waves of fever. These waves generally |
| french army doctor names Charles Louis Alphonse | | | | occur every 2-3 days. Ingenuity is what I call it when |
| Laveran first discovered me, and was awarded the | | | | I stick inside of the liver and the red blood cells so |
| Nobel prize for Physiology in 1907. (I am still waiting | | | | that your immune sytem cannot ask me to leave. It |
| for my turn to win the award). It was Alphonse, | | | | is when relationships are good and I remain in the |
| Charles that was the first person to be able to | | | | blood cells long enough to create surface protiens so |
| describe my life cycle, as I develop in the bodies of | | | | that I can stick onto the walls of blood vessels, |
| mosquitos and of my many human hosts.Do you | | | | otherwise I see my fate, and am destroyed in the |
| have me? - Your starting to get a feeling for who I | | | | spleen. Because my surface protiens come in so |
| am; but how do you know if you have me? Trust | | | | many variations they can easily out smart your |
| me you'll know! I can cause several things, aka | | | | immune system, and I remain.Even when your |
| Symtoms of Malaria. My specialties include but are not | | | | immune system catched on to what I'm up to, I've |
| limited to: fever, shivering, arthralgia, vomiting, anemia, | | | | already put on a new coat, and guess what. It'll have |
| and if your looking for a really fun one: convulsions. | | | | to start from scratch. You can see how me hanging |
| Sometimes individuals will even feel a tingling | | | | about in your blood vessels causes complications in |
| sensation in their skin.Why should you be listening to | | | | your system.Feel free to reprint this article as long as |
| me? - If it isn't my sleek lines or ingenuity you should | | | | you keep the article, this caption and author |
| be paying attention because of numbers. The number | | | | biography in tact with all hyperlinks.Ryan Fyfe is the |
| of victims every year that are infected with my | | | | owner and operator of Malaria Prevention - which is |
| virus. Infections are dangerous and complications with | | | | the best site on the internet for all malaria related |
| me, malaria, include coma and death if untreated. | | | | information. |
| Young children again are especially vulnerable.My | | | | |