97countries

In 2014,malaria transmission

occured in627,000estimated deaths,most happened

in Africa

In 2012,malaria caused 3.3 BILLION

1.2 BILLION

people are at riskof malaria of whom

are at high risk

An estimatedsseses

Malariawhat is

AT RISK?WHO IS

Malaria is a disease of the blood that is caused by the Plasmodium

parasite, which is transmitted from person to person by the female

Anopheles mosquito. Malaria is an entirely preventable and treatable

mosquito-borne illness but it continues to cause death.

People with little or no immunity to malaria, such as young

children and pregnant women or travellers coming from

areas with no malaria.

In high risk areas

will beinfected

by malaria

1,000Globally, the disease caused an estimated

584,000deaths in 2013

Headache Fever

Dry Cough

Sweating,

Chills

Muscle

Pain

Nausea,

VomitingBack Pain

1. http://www.who.int/malaria/media/world_malaria_report_2014/en/

2. http://patient.info/health/malaria-prevention

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SYMPTOMS OF MALARIA

Tu Youyou has been

studying on both

Western and Chinese

medicine. She treasures the wisdom

of the ancestors and discovered the

anti-malaria regimens- artemisinin

and dihydroartemisinin through

ancient Chinese manuscripts that was

the key to beating the disease. She

scoured the ancient texts to study the

best way to extract the compound for

use in medicine.

1960YEAR

was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of artemisinin, a drug based on traditional Chinese herbal medicine and that is now part of standard anti-malarial regimens.

2015YEAR

Artemisininis extracted from Artemisia annua in traditional

Chinese medicine.

Artemisinin-based combination therapy drugs has

become a World Health Organisation (WHO)

recommended anti-malarial standard therapy. WHO

believes that artemisinin based combination

therapy is the most effective means of treating

malaria and the best drug resistance for malaria.

across the World from Traditional Chinese Medicine

Tu Youyou the Chinese medical scientist who discovered artemisinin used to treat malaria.

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http://bhavanajagat.com/2015/10/12/biotic-interactions-spiritualism-vs-parasitism/

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how artemisinin

works onMALARIA

Artemisinin kills malaria parasites in the

human body rapidly. To avoid malaria

parasites from being immune to individual

drugs, artemisinin based combination therapy

(ACT) is used on today’s treatment on malaria.

In 2004, World Health Organisation

(WHO) listed such combination therapy

as the No.1 drug choice for treating ma-

laria, the cure rate went up to 97%.

Since the effect is significant, the use

therapy in malaria-endemic countries

increased from 11 million times in 2005

to nearly 400 million times in 2013.

1 2 3 4

The 4 steps of anti-malarial method by WHO:Sprayinsecticides

Useinsecticide-impregnatedbed nets

Use artemisinin-based combinationtherapy for malariapositive patients

Intermittent preventivetreatment for pregnant women using prescription drugs

1. http://www.who.int/malaria/publications/world_malaria_report_2013/wmr13_summary_key_points.pdf

2. http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v17/n10/full/nm.2471.html

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