New Britain herald., 1925-11-20

Malaria is one of the most com mon of all preventable diseases. It Is disease of man, prevalent in hot, wet countries.
 Malarial fever Is sometimes called chills and fever, bilious fever and swamp fever IL is found in the United States along the coastal plane from Connecticut to Texas, over nearly all of the Mississippi Valley and in a number of valleys on the Pacific coast.
 Malarial fever Is caused by the presence of certain small organisms in the blood of the person who has the fever. The organism of malar- ial fever is Il microscopic animal which lives In the blood. The ma larial parasite lives in man only by feeding on the blood cells of man.
 We know that these parasites are found in the blood of those who have malarial fever because with the microscope VIC can see them in the red blood cells of man sick with this disease.
 Red blood corpusces are essential 10 life. And if too many are de- stroyed death will follow through poisoning takes place at the same time as destruction of red cells.
 Malarial parasites enter the blood of man through the bite of a mosquito. If person already has malaria, that is, has these parasites already in his blood anything that lowers vitality may bring out or de- velop malarial attack which might otherwise be avoided.
 Only anopheles mosquitoes carry malaria and only some kinds of anopheles. Mosquitoes are not matched with this power of conyey- ing malaria. They acquire it only by biting a person who has these parasites in his blood. The para sites are taken then from q man by mosquito and go back from the mosquito 10 another man. Malarial fever spreads exactly like yellow fever except for the type or mosquito. The female mosquito of certain kind feeds on a man in- fected with malaria and sucks up blood with malaria parasites in it.. After the parasites develop In the oody Of the mosquito she iniects these parasites into the other men whom she bites and infects them with malarial fever. Three factors are thus necessary in spreading ma larial fever. Anopheles mosquitoes. malarial parasites, and human beings.
 When a mosquito injects malarial parasites into mans blood these parasites enter the red blood cells. They grow by feeding on the blood cells ana become larger and larger. Their edges become scalloped.
 Then they divide into a number or wedge-shaped bodies meeting in the middle something like the slices or pie. Then the blood cells break up and set these young para sltes free and each one of them starts off as new parasite on it's own account and tries to enter an- other blood cell and repeat the process or its mother parasite,
 There arc at least three different Kinds of malarial parasites each of which produces different form of malarial fever. When parasites en. ter red blood cell it takes soma tune before they divide Into a num- per or parasites. One kind. tba tertlan, takes about 4S hours. An olher, the quartan, 72 hours third, called by scientists the estivo- autumnah produces the worst kind or malarial fever.
 when infected blood cells breal, up they liberate not only a bunch of parasites, but a small amount ot poison which the parasites bava formed, and when a large nun,har or them do this at the same time this causes the chills and fever of tne SICK man which occur inst as the cells break down. It has heer estimated that at least one hundred and fifty million parasites must divide at the same time to lihero+a enough poison to produce q chill
 A malarial cycle consists of thraa S'ases' the cold, the hot and tbe sweating stage. The attack may be sudden or 1t may be preceded by A feeling of uneasiness, a desira to stretch thea limbs and yawn, head. ache' loss of appetite, and some times vomiting.
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 EStlVo-autumnal malaria fever Ia a variety of malaria more ant +o run an irregular course Thn paroxysms consisting of chills. fevar and sweating may be longer anh me fever may be continuous or ohly drop in the morning hours some cases closely resemble tvnboid ieFer' consumption, abscess of tba IiNer or aoscess of other parts of the body, If this variety of ma larial fever is neglected or in,- properly treated, serious conse- quences may result.
 mere are several types of tha perhlclous form Of estiyo.autun,poI ihaiarlal fever which are extremely dangerous and cause many deaths Iitmorrhages from different parts of lne body may occur in any form of eS.Ivo-autumnal malarial fever&
 Chronlc malaria is due to fm- proper treatment of constant re- infection. No thoroughly treated case or malaria becomes chronic.
 The important fact to remembs, apout malaria is that the anopheles mosquito acts as the Intermediate host. '''