Symtoms of Malaria

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QUESTION

Please tell me the symptoms of malaria.

ANSWER

Symptoms of malaria include fever and flu-like illness, including shaking chills, headache, muscle aches, and tiredness. Due to the way in which the malaria parasite reproduces in the human body, fevers occurring in a cyclical fashion (i.e. high fever one day, no fever the next day, then recurrence of fever on the third or fourth day, depending on the type of malaria) are a characteristic symptom of malaria, but may not be present in all cases. Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea may also occur. Malaria may cause anemia and jaundice (yellow coloring of the skin and eyes) because of the loss of red blood cells. Symptoms usually appear between 10 and 15 days after the mosquito bite. If not treated, malaria can quickly become life-threatening by disrupting the blood supply to vital organs. When blood supply to the brain is disrupted during malarial infection, the resulting condition, characterised by seizures, mental confusion, coma, and death, is known as “cerebral malaria”, and is associated with Plasmodium falciparum, the most deadly form of malaria.

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Anti-Infective Drugs Market to Reach $66 Billion by 2013, Says Report

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The anti-infective drugs market will jump to $66 billion by 2013, according to a recently published report.

Anti-infective drugs include: anti-viral therapeutics, antibiotics, anti-fungal agents and prophylactic treatments such as vaccines. Six infectious diseases — pneumonia, tuberculosis, diarrheal diseases, malaria, measles and HIV/AIDS — account for half of all premature deaths worldwide. With a worldwide death toll from infectious diseases exceeding 14 million, anti-infective drugs are vital.

To date, the most successful anti-infective drugs target the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV, the virus that causes AIDS), the herpes virus (HSV-1 and HSV-2), bacterial infections and hepatitis C (HCV). Truvada, Valtrex, Cravit, Floxin, Atripla, Pegasys, Kaletra and Reyataz are among the anti-infective drugs with the highest global sales.

The report, entitled  “Anti-Infective Drugs Markets,” was produced by TriMark Publications.

The “Anti-Infective Drugs Markets” report covers:

  • Pneumonia
  • Influenza
  • Avian Bird Flu
  • Sinusitis
  • Acute Suppurative Thyroiditis
  • Complicated Skin and Skin Structure Infections (cSSSIs)
  • Lymphadenitis
  • Pharyngotonsillitis
  • Vascular Infections
  • Pancreatitis
  • Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs)
  • Viral Encephalitis
  • Reye’s Syndrome
  • Blood-Borne Infections
  • Malaria
  • West Nile Virus

The “Anti-Infective Drugs Markets” report examines companies manufacturing anti-infective drugs equipment and supplies in the world. Companies covered include: Abraxis Bioscience, Acambis, Achillion, Adlyfe, Advanced Life Sciences Holdings, Affinium, Akonni Biosystems, Alnylam, APP, Aquapharm Biodiscovery, Arbor Vita, Arpida, Avexa, Basilea, Baxter, Biophage Pharma, CEL-SCI, Cerexa, Combimatrix, Cubist, Daiichi Sankyo, Hospira, Idenix, Incyte, Medivir, Meiji Holdings, MerLion, Mutabilis, Nanobio, Nanosphere, Nanoviricides, Novabay, Obetech, Optimer, Panacos, Paratek, Pharmasset, Pico, Polymedix, Powdermed, Presidio, Progenics, Protez, Rib-X, Ribomed, Targanta, Theravance, Trius, Vertex and X-GEN.

Detailed charts with sales forecasts and marketshare data are included.

More information: TriMark Publications.

Source: Business Wire