The epidemic of malaria;

The relationship between malaria and poverty;

How does malaria become scourge?

Why malaria is considered epidemic?

 Real scourge of malaria: 

1.    Malaria is an infectious disease, transmissible and most widespread in the world. 

2.    According to the WHO, more than one hundred million cases are listed each year, including eighty-eight million in sub-Saharan Africa;

3.    Malaria poses a direct threat to more than two and a half billions people and kills may be more than two millions and a half every year;

4.    One million and a half in Africa, including mostly children less than five years.

Disease of poverty: 

1.    Malaria was discovered in 1630, it kills especially where conditions of poverty and malnutrition or the failure of the most basic possibilities of prevention are existed;

2.    This is a highly endemic disease in the tropical Africa;

3.    The favorable areas of malaria are the marshes and plains;

4.    Nevertheless mosquitoes that transmit the malaria are now found at 2.600 meter altitudes in Burundi and they are frequent throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia and America;

5.    WHO noted in Latin America in 1989 a virulence increase of malaria; compared to the situation in 1970.

Severity of the disease: 

1.    Malaria is also found under other climate in North Africa, Mediterranean, Europe, particularly during the warm period;

2.    Increased travel and fast transport leave no country immune imported cases of this deadly scourge.

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