Beware of Mosquitoes
Heavy showers and poor drainage facilities can lead to accumulation of water in the surroundings. This leads to breeding of mosquitoes, which can transmit diseases such as malaria and dengue fever. The female anopheles mosquito carries the malarial parasite - P. falciparum and P. vivax. Malaria transmitted by the bites of these mosquitoes. If you suffer from a consistent heavy headache, get periodic chills and high fever, get yourself examined; you may be having malaria. Blood tests are available to diagnose malaria. Your doctor will treat you after a proper diagnosis. If you happen to go into an endemic area where malaria is rampant, you can take anti-malarial medicines as a preventive measure.
Aedes aegypti are daytime mosquitoes, which bite you mostly under the elbows and on knees. Dengue virus, a type of Flavivirus infects the mosquitoes and the mosquitoes then passes on the illness to humans. The signs of dengue mainly include fever with rashes on body, reduced white blood cells and reduced platelet count in the blood. The deadly complication of dengue fever is dengue haemorrhagic fever. Anaglesics is given to reduce pain; antipyretic is prescribed for fever and antibiotics for curbing the infection.
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