Home » Health and Common Old Age Diseases » Malaria Infectious diseases are plenty in number and are of equal concern and harmful to people from all across the different parts of the world. It is true that man is still trying to find a cure for many of the infectious diseases. Diseases like the cold and flu, malaria, allergy, etc are some of the infectious diseases, which affect the human body. Chances of being afflicted with any of these diseases increases all the more with old age. This is one of the facts about aging, which everyone should be aware of and adequate care should be taken of the older members in the family to safeguard against it.

Chances of people being affected with Malaria are especially high in the tropical and sub tropical regions including parts of America, Asia and several areas in Africa.

The protozoan parasites are the main carriers of the malarial infection in the humans. A great number of the malarial infections lead to the death of the patient. But in most of these cases, it is lack of proper medical facilities and poverty, which make it difficult for a person suffering from malaria to recover good health. The damage caused by the spread of this disease is thus understandable, especially in the case of the impoverished states. Each year about 650 million people are laid low by the disease malaria. More than a million deaths, each year, are also recorded to occur from the same disease.

It is the female mosquito, Anopheles, which causes malaria in the human beings. It has been learnt that the Anopheles mosquito bites only during the daytime. There are numerous symptoms shown by a person affected by the protozoan parasite. Some of the symptoms of the malarial infection include the likes of fever, nausea, shortness of breath etc. No vaccine has been created yet, which could protect the people from the disease. But one could always prevent the occurrence of malaria by using mosquito nets, repellents, insecticides, etc. Prevention, as far as malaria is concerned, is certainly better than cure.