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Prevention And Control Of Locally Endemic And Epidemic Communicable Disease
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The prevention and control of locally endemic and epidemic disease is an important aspect of primary health care.health for all cannot be achieved.unlesd positive effort are made to control the major communicable and non communicable disease that plague many developing countries, using appropriate and affordable ways some of the major endemic.disease are covered.and include.malaria infection, viral disease ( yellow fever) bacteria disease (cholesterol m) helminth infestation (leprosy, typhoid fever, tubercle) and loasis as well as sexually disease, including AIDS. Some of these disease often occurred.as serious epidemic killing many people.e.g yellow fever,Lassa fever,cholera.outbreak of these.disease have increased.wordwide and in recent.year.many developing countries have faced serious epidemic of these disease.Reason for this includes faster travel and greater distance covered, urbanization, overcrowding,poor nutrition and lack of safe water and sanitation.
Malaria
EPIDEMIOLOGY
Malaria is highly epidemic in many developing countries and is one of the major causes of I'll health and death, especially in children in Nigeria, malaria ranks highest among notifiable disease
The risk of malaria is higher in rural area but the disease is also common in big town and cities in epidemic area. Children under five and pregnant women are at a special risk of getting malaria.
Malaria infection during pregnancy has been associated with maternal morbidity and mortality.first and second trimester abortion,. Still birth, premature delivery, and low birth weight malaria is also the common cause of anaemia in pregnancy.malaria is regarded as endemic in an area where there is measurable incidence and natural transmission over a year.in such area where there is constantly repeatedly infection from vector with frequent man biting habit, the malaria in the community is said to be stable.in such place the level of. Incidence tend to be transmission is less intense or not continuous and malaria in the community is referred to as unstable.Endemic is measure by a percentage of children ages two to night years showing enlargement of spleen.
Low endemic.spleen rather in children (2-9 year) not exceeding 10:/:
Moderate endemic.spleen rate in children over 50;/; with high spleen rate in adult
Very high endemic- spleen rate in children constantly over 75:/: and association with low spleen rate in adult.
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Malaria
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Malaria is cause by infection with sporozoa of the genus plasmodium, transmitted in nature by the bite of female mosquito.four species of plasmodium are responsible for many infection.
Plasma falciparus
Plasmodium ovale
Plasmodium vivax
Plasmodium malaria
In Nigeria over three quarters of malaria infection are cause by p.falciparum.p.malariae.p.ovale.p.vivaare practically.absent in West Africa.
The absent of vivax malaria in West Africa can be explained by the non existent of Duffy blood in the population. Duffy antigen act receptor for p vivax, making it possible for the parasite to penetrate the red blood cells.
All form of human malaria are transmitted in nature by the bite of Anopheles mosquito, but rarely artificial infection can be results from transfusion of blood containing erythrocytic phase of the parasite or vary rarely from mother to child through.placents.
The major vector of human malaria are Anopheles gambiiae.Anophele arabiense are most dominant in the savañnah area and cities while gambiae are highly dense in forest of the tropics.Anophenes funestun have an uneven distribution and the salt water forms, Anopheles mealas are essentially coastal species.The mosquito become infected by injecting human blood containing make and female gametocytes.
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