Malaria is increasing at a worrying rate compared to the other blood and tissue parasitic infections. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), malaria accounts for one of the most causes of death due to infectious diseases worldwide, and the malady affects an estimated 350 million people around the globe with over a million people […]
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Public Health & Parasitic Diseases (Parasitology)
Environmental factors greatly enhances the spread and transmission of malaria because these climatic factors which are more prone in one part of the world than the other helps the female Anopheles mosquito (that harbours the Plasmodium parasite) to thrive and multiply successfully. The spread of malaria infection in a given population is controlled and affected
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Public Health & Parasitic Diseases (Parasitology)
Parasitology is the study of parasites and their interaction with other organisms (i.e. their hosts). It is the study of parasites, their ecology, transmission and life cycle. The study of parasites is as ancient as mankind as man became conscious of his immediate environment. The field of Parasitology was fully established and widely appreciated in
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Public Health & Parasitic Diseases (Parasitology)