hi
theres that guy that works with my mother in her job who is infected with malaria and she was wondering if the malaria is an infectious disiese plz if u dunno dnt answer...
a doctor will rly help thnx vry much for helpin
2006-11-30 04:07:23 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
It is not.
It is considered a VECTOR disease... Meaning that you need a host to move it around. Basically, a specific mosquito needs to drink the blood of someone infected. Then, INSIDE THE MOSQUITO, the parasite grows to its next stage. At this point, it can be passed.
But by coughing, etc... Nope.
Regards,
Ryan
PS - there IS NO VACCINE for Malaria, only drugs to treat it after you get it.
The main mosiquito that transmits it is not even in America. Check out my source for the map for the mosquito that transmits the parasite... ANOPHELES GAMBIAE
2006-11-30 04:09:37 · answer #1 · answered by Ryan Pediatrics 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Usually, people get malaria by being bitten by an infected female Anopheles mosquito. Only Anopheles mosquitoes can transmit malaria and they must have been infected through a previous blood meal taken on an infected person.
When a mosquito bites, a small amount of blood is taken in which contains the microscopic malaria parasites. The parasite grows and matures in the mosquito’s gut for a week or more, then travels to the mosquito’s salivary glands. When the mosquito next takes a blood meal, these parasites mix with the saliva and are injected into the bite.
Once in the blood, the parasites travel to the liver and enter liver cells to grow and multiply. During this "incubation period", the infected person has no symptoms. After as few as 8 days or as long as several months, the parasites leave the liver cells and enter red blood cells. Once in the cells, they continue to grow and multiply. After they mature, the infected red blood cells rupture, freeing the parasites to attack and enter other red blood cells. Toxins released when the red cells burst are what cause the typical fever, chills, and flu-like malaria symptoms.
If a mosquito bites this infected person and ingests certain types of malaria parasites ("gametocytes"), the cycle of transmission continues.
Because the malaria parasite is found in red blood cells, malaria can also be transmitted through blood transfusion, organ transplant, or the shared use of needles or syringes contaminated with blood. Malaria may also be transmitted from a mother to her fetus before or during delivery ("congenital" malaria).
Malaria is not transmitted from person to person like a cold or the flu. You cannot get malaria from casual contact with malaria-infected people.
2006-11-30 04:53:36 · answer #2 · answered by Mintjulip 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Malaria is transmitted from 1 infected person to another by mosquitos so it is NOT contagious from 1 person to another by simple exposure. Malaria has been removed from much of the globe by draining swamps (where the bugs breed) and spraying for mosquitos although it is still found in many countries especially in rural or country areas. There is treatment but the response is far from certain. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia has a website cdc.gov/travel which should provide additiona information.
2006-11-30 04:10:47 · answer #3 · answered by john e russo md facm faafp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Malaria is thankfully NOT an infectious disease. You catch it from a mosquito or parasite. Malaria can be caught in Africa or Swamp areas, and you have to be given the disease through the blood system. That's where the disease thrives and lives.
Do not worry, your Mom is safe. Unless she was to literally transfer this Infected Mans blood into her veins, she wont contact this awful Malaria.
2006-11-30 04:13:18 · answer #4 · answered by Such A Chicka 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
malaria is transmitted by the bite of a mosquito, and is not transmitted from person to person if that's what you're worried about.
2006-11-30 04:09:31 · answer #5 · answered by AMBER D 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, you get it from being bitten by an infected mosquito, it does not spread from person to person like colds and flu
http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/faq.htm
2006-11-30 04:11:00 · answer #6 · answered by revmissus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
malaria is extremely contagious. Why is your mom's company even allowing this person to go to work?
2006-11-30 04:09:27 · answer #7 · answered by tcbtoday123 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
well if its spread from infected person to person by way of mosquito's then that should qualify!
2006-11-30 04:09:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes it is. Ask her take a vaccine before working with him closely.
2006-11-30 04:08:52 · answer #9 · answered by muth g 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
yes it is very catchy its really common in africa thats why the take vaccines
2006-11-30 05:04:45 · answer #10 · answered by ReyMysterio'swife 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋