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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 2:38 am Post subject: Malaria Makes a Comeback |
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Malaria makes a comeback as mosquitos migrate
By Kim Eun-ha, JoongAng Daily (July 19, 2008)
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An office worker with the family name Kim, 58, from Goyang, Gyeonggi recently sought medical treatment after enduring three weeks of chills and fever, which he initially thought was just a cold. But a blood test revealed that Kim had Plasmodium vivax, more commonly known as tertian malaria or hakjil in Korean.
Kim had not been to Southeast Asia or local areas where the disease-carrying Anopheles mosquitoes commonly live, only traveling to his office in Seoul from his home in Ilsan.
"The frequency of malaria outbreaks among people, regardless of age and gender, is rising across the country, not just in northern Gyeonggi where it was most common," said Heo Ae-jeong, professor of internal medicine at Ilsan Hospital. "Every year we treat about 50 malaria patients, and some of them have never been outside the city.".... |
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sojourner1
Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug
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| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:02 am Post subject: |
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| I never heard of malaria in temperate climates like Korea. Guess it's possible as Summer time is the same thing as a tropical environment, but without palms and orchids. |
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moosehead
Joined: 05 May 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 6:40 am Post subject: |
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mosquitoes bite people infected with it and then carry it on to someone else
w/all the s.e. asian immigrants here, it's inevitable malaria would follow
cold winters usually kill off most of the mosquitoes but not always and down south sometimes not at all. I've seen mosquitoes in my apt when it was 30 degrees out (F not C)
malaria is a fact of life on this planet and a major killer for many people -  |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:08 am Post subject: |
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| w/all the s.e. asian immigrants here, it's inevitable malaria would follow |
Ummm...please explain yourself. Backing it up with scientific facts would be
appreciated as well.
Thanks,
GG |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:15 am Post subject: |
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What causes it?
Malaria is spread in three ways. The most common is by the bite of an infected female Anopheles mosquito. However, malaria can also be spread through a transfusion of infected blood or by sharing a needle with an infected person. There are four different species of parasites that cause malaria. They are the Plasmodium falciparum (which is the most fatal), P. vivax, P. malariae, and P. ovale. When an infected mosquito bites a person, the parasites enter the bloodstream and travel to the liver. They multiply in the liver, then travel back into the blood, where they continue to grow and multiply so quickly that they clog blood vessels and rupture blood cells. When the red blood cells burst, the parasites are released and then attack other red blood cells. Malaria is not contagious, which means one person cannot pass it directly to another. However, if a mosquito that is not infected bites an infected person, it picks up the malaria parasites. Animals can also get malaria, but animal malaria cannot spread to humans, and human malaria cannot spread to animals.
http://www.hmc.psu.edu/healthinfo/m/malaria.htm
I suppose a S.E. Asian immigrant could bring have malaria, come to Korea
and get bitten by a mosquito which then bites other people.
It is also possible that Koreans could visit those countries and bring back malaria as well.
As an aside, does anyone know if Kim Chi prevents malaria? |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:31 am Post subject: |
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| I never heard of malaria in temperate climates like Korea. Guess it's possible as Summer time is the same thing as a tropical environment, but without palms and orchids. |
Outbreak of vivax malaria in areas adjacent to the demilitarized zone, South Korea, 1998
JS Lee, WJ Lee, SH Cho, and HI Ree
Malaria had been eradicated in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) by the late 1970s. In 1993, a soldier was infected with Plasmodium vivax malaria in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ; the border area between North and South Korea), and since then, the number of cases has been steadily increasing year after year. In 1998, 3,932 vivax malaria cases were microscopically confirmed, affecting 2,784 (70.8%) soldiers (including discharged soldiers) and 1,148 (29.2%) civilians. These cases occurred throughout the year, peaking in July (30.1%) and August (30.5%). Most of the patients were infected in areas in or near the DMZ. Taking into consideration entomologic, socioecologic, and epidemiologic factors, it is postulated that there has been an epidemic of malaria in North Korea since 1993, with the number of cases increasing yearly; the continuous infiltration across the DMZ from North Korea of infected female mosquitoes of the vector species Anopheles sinensis resulted in an outbreak of vivax malaria in the DMZ of South Korea.
http://www.ajtmh.org/cgi/content/abstract/66/1/13 |
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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What's the deal with the malaria vaccine?
If you've been innoculated once for it.
Is it a one time thing?
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moosehead
Joined: 05 May 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Guri Guy wrote: |
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| w/all the s.e. asian immigrants here, it's inevitable malaria would follow |
Ummm...please explain yourself. Backing it up with scientific facts would be
appreciated as well.
Thanks,
GG |
seems you've already repeated my assertion - and as for scientific facts, hey bud, this is a discussion forum, and the day I explain myself to a kewpie doll is the day I sign off permanently
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