can malaria kill within a matter of hours?
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I don't think so. Severe and complicated malaria takes time to progress. It can kill due to circulatory shock, kidney failure, haemolysis (breakdown of red blood cells), coma, irregularity of the rhythm of the heart, low blood sugar, fits.
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It won't kill you after the two week date. But, the doctor prescribes a drug to treat a specific ailment. In two weeks, if you take the medicine as directed, the illness should be gone from your system.If you are still sick, the doctor needs to take another look at you.\n\nIf you do not take the drug as directed by the doctor, the drug will not be able to do it's job. You will get sicker than before you started the medication. You're still sick. The medicine won't be any good because a portion of it has been taken. There isn't enough left to do anyone else any good. \n\nSO, the moral to this story is, take the medicine until it is gone. Even if you feel better, take it all. You will be cured and the medicine bottle will have been tossed in the trash.  The left overs won't do anyone else any good.
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A mosquito can live 1 month if it has enough blood each day but if it hasn't it can only live 1 day.
770750
This is something that you wont find on Google.  You need to look into the pharmacokinetics of the drug.  Its maximum effect is several hours in the day.
831121
No.  As for being partially resistant to malaria...there are shots for that to make you 100% resistent.
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It depends how many tubes they need, for lab values, etc.  It is usually not more than 1 minute! :)  Very easy.  And the nurse will talk to you while they do it, so you won't even notice!
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That would require decaffeinating.  I'm not prepared to go to such an extreme.  But since I know that almost every other chemical flushes out of your body in 24-72 hours.  I would go with 24-72 hours!
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there are currently 3 major types of malaria in the world. to protect yourself against this serious desease, consult with a qualified medical practioner. This is no joke. Malaria can kill you, destroy your liver and weaken your heart. Your Doctor can tell you what is best to take based on the region of the world you plan to visit.The malaria in that region is specific to that country. Do not forget about Hep A/B vacines and Cholera as well as Diptheria. You also need to get TB shots and Typhoid as well as an updated  Tetnas shot. If you plan on visiting or working in a third world country, do not play around with your health. I worked around the world in some very isolated areas. You do not want to get sick outside of the western world. By the way, there are no known herbal antimalarial compounds and anyone selling you one is a fraud.
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There are other diseases that mosquitos transmit, but TB, AIDS, and Herpes are not among them.  \n\nWhen the mosquito "bites" she injects a certain saliva under the skin to prevent clotting the blood.  If the blood clotted, it would clog her feeding tube.  After taking her blood meal, her feeding tube is wiped clean of blood and she rests for a few hours to digest it, thereby allowing germs on the tube to die.  \n\nMalaria, dengue fever, and west nile are carried because they actually develop inside the mosquito.  The parasite Plasmodium (for malaria) has a host inside the human, and another host inside the mosquito.  (I can send you the whole biology chapter if you want it.)  The parasite develops inside the mosquito and is then sent to the salivary glands, where it is passed on to the next human in that saliva -- about 8 hours after biting the first malaria-infected human.  \n\nAt this time, AIDS has not developed into a disease that can use mosquitos as hosts.  It can be sexually transmitted, because there are virus cells in the reproductive fluids and there are always small abrasions made during a sexual act which allows these virus cells to pass into the blood stream.  It can be transmitted by blood transfusion, or by using an injection needle more than one as is common among stoned drug users.  \n\nHowever, AIDS does not (yet) have the ability in its life cycle to develop inside a mosquito and migrate to the salivary glands so as to infect the next person.  It is unlikely that it will, because it is a virus and not a living parasite; also it is a mammalian disease and would have no effect on insect cells.  If AIDS were passed by mosquitos, using the number of malaria infections every year and the impossiblity of buy medication for either disease, everyone in Africa would have been dead for almost a century as the disease passed.  \n\nI hope that this answers some of your questions, and the implied worry, about the possible diseases passed by the mosquitos.  If you want more information just contact me!
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There are several means of successfully treating malaria if contracted, yet malaria is still one of the leading causes of preventable death in the developing world.  The reason is that most of these people are too poor to afford even basic preventative measures like bednets (which keeps malarial misquitoes from biting children in their sleep).\n\nBednets are important step to reducing the impact of malaria, because it is much more expensive to treat malaria once it is contracted than it is to prevent it via bednets, removing standing water, etc.\n\nThere are some efforts to find cheaper alternative treatments as well, including one promising one that comes from Chinese herbal medicine. \n\nhttp://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/11/26/health.malaria/\n\nI've also attached a CDC (center for disease control) article that describes some of the anti-malarial drugs currently being used.
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I think answer number 1 is correct. However, it probably depends on the individual. Some people wouldn't last more than 24 to 36 hours.
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flu can kill quicker.
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No that is bad, recommend is 4 or 5 hours max.  Go to the hospital if you having trouble, otherwise you can get Toxic Shock Syndrome.
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Malaria is one of the most common infectious diseases in the world, and severe respiratory complications have been described mainly in association with Plasmodium falciparum. We describe a case of acute respiratory distress syndrome complicating infection with P. vivax in the setting of relatively low parasitemia in a 47-yr-old woman after a brief trip to Papua New Guinea. A review of the literature shows that pulmonary complications of P. vivax are rare but occur more frequently than generally acknowledged. Pathogenic mechanisms of these complications are discussed.
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I dont remember what I took for Malaria.  I had no side affects.  This was in 1997 when I went to the Amazon.\n\nhttp://members.aol.com/freedog1000/
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In the time it has taken you to write this question and then receive the answer, you would know. the desease once it takes hold progresses very rapidly. in mere hours it can go from a small patch on your ankle to engulfing your whole leg.
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not instantly but very quickly within a few hours or so