I come from Africa and i'm healthy but i'm told i can transmit maleria,if that is the case why was i given the visa in the first place
2006-08-31 04:21:01 · 12 answers · asked by abi 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
Malaria is transmitted when a female Anopheles mosquito takes a blood meal. During blood meals taken on persons infected with malaria parasites, the mosquitoes pick up sexual parasite forms (“gametocytes”). After 10-18 days of further development, infective parasite forms (“sporozoites”) are found in the mosquito’s salivary glands. When the mosquito takes another blood meal, the parasites are inoculated into another person.
Anopheles freeborni is found in the western United States. It was one of the principal mosquito species transmitting malaria in the United States before the disease was eradicated in 1951. (The other principal vector was An. quadrimaculatus.) The continued presence of both An. freeborni and An. quadrimaculatus means that there is a small risk that malaria could be reintroduced in the United States.
So in theory you are a risk, but it is a miniscule risk (you would have to have the virus in your blood while being bitten by a female Anopheles mosquito which are not too common, etc) and any person coming from a malaria area (which are many across the world) could be accused of this. However, it sounds to me that whoever told you this found a novel way of being racist. I am a white African who lived in Ghana (has endemnic malaria) for four years and during that time visited the western states of the USA several times with my life partner who is a US citizen and who lived in Ghana with me. No-one has ever said this to either of us, even though both of us have had malaria several times.
I would ignore this. Just get on with your life. There will always be petty people in this world of ours...
2006-08-31 06:02:25 · answer #1 · answered by confused 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not maleria,it is MALARIA(latin for "bad air")I come from Africa too,I spent 3 months driving though Africa up to the Tanzanian border from Cape Town in 2003,I experienced the anapheles mosquito without the use of "lariam" or any of the prophaylactics and both my wife and self emerged without symptoms.Basically no,if you care to study the emergence of the parasite transferred by the mosquito,you may begin to understand that it uses your "body",your "bloodstream" as a "home" for gestation.Your immune system will attack it,causing a "fever" when it moves on to it's secondary stage,either your system "fails" at this point,or it sustains and "kills" the intruding parasite,but "passing" it on is not possible,no matter how hard you try,unless you've carried some external mossies with you?
2006-08-31 20:55:17 · answer #2 · answered by Wayne B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Mosquitoes transmit malaria; it is a parasite that gets into the blood. It cannot be passed through human contact. Next time you see whoever told you that laugh at them. A lot.
2006-08-31 11:28:19 · answer #3 · answered by Jooles 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No.
Taken directly from link provided below:
"What causes malaria?
A bite from a mosquito infected with certain parasites causes malaria. In extremely rare cases, people can get malaria if they come into contact with infected blood, or an unborn baby (fetus) may get the disease from its mother. You cannot get malaria by being near a person who has the disease."
2006-08-31 11:27:52 · answer #4 · answered by angei0809 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Malaria is transmitted by the bite of the Anopholese mosquito and not person to person.
2006-08-31 13:09:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Malaria is passed on through mosquitoes and I doubt a mosquito could fly from Africa to the USA.
2006-08-31 11:27:44 · answer #6 · answered by vwallwood 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
malaria need to secondary host of a mosqito to be spread. If you had the active disease and donated blood then you could spread it in that way, but only to the recipient
2006-08-31 11:29:17 · answer #7 · answered by mike-from-spain 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it might be possible that you are a 'carrier' which means you dont have the disease yourself, but you could be a carrier, and could pas it on to others, i know this is odd, but its similar with eye colours of babies, if a parent has blue eyes, and another brown eyes, the ebaby might have blue eyes, but might pass the brown eye gene onto when the baby has a baby.
you might have a built-in immune to the malaria, that why you have not reacted to it, etc
2006-08-31 11:32:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Impossible only mosquitos can infect someone with malaria
2006-08-31 11:53:01 · answer #9 · answered by nylatinanurse 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Most likely not.
2006-08-31 18:58:19 · answer #10 · answered by Art The Wise 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋