If you have contracted Malaria there are many things you have to consider when receiving treatment. For example, what malaria parasite you have, where you have been affected, your age, the severity of your symptoms, and whether you are pregnant are all determining factors on how long you will be on treatment and what medicine you will take. Some common antimalarial drugs taken are Chloroquine (Aralen), Quinine sulfate (Qualaquin), Hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil), Mefloquine, and a combination of atovaquone and proguanil (Malarone). Primaquine is also active against the dormant parasite liver and forms hypnozoites to prevent relapses.
Our Plan
Our plan to contain Malaria is to send out a mutated mosquito whose sole purpose is to kill the species of mosquitoes carrying Malaria. These mosquitoes will not be able to reproduce with the mosquitoes with Malaria. Doing this will help decrease the mosquitoes with the disease therefore decreasing the amount of people getting affected. Resulting in a large drop in mortality rates. These mosquitoes will be created in a government provided lab and will be spread worldwide, especially to the southern hemisphere where Malaria is a major issue. This plan for containment will eventually cause the mosquitoes able to carry Malaria to go extinct, saving many lives around the world.
How to Control Malaria in the Future
There are many different prevention strategies when it comes to controlling Malaria. One very common way to prevent Malaria is to always where bug spray when your outside during hotter times of the year especially if you are going to be in a Malaria-epidemic country. Also putting screens on doors and windows of your house/buildings to keep out mosquitoes and other insects is a very easy way to take action. Another common strategy in preventing this diseases is using bed-nets that are treated with insecticide is a proven efficient way to decrease child mortality rates. This net will prevent any mosquito that lands on it while the person is sleeping from biting and infecting the person. The nets should be re-treated with insecticide about every 6 months.