Geography Of Disease (Case Study) Malaria - Infectious Disease

Question 1

What are the main statistics concerning malaria?

Answer 1

In 2015, 200 million cases, 90% in Africa

Question 2

What are the physical factors that affect malaria?

Answer 2

Mosquitoes only survive in hot countries, breed in stagnant water so a rainy season is needed

Question 3

What are the socio-economic factors affecting malaria?

Answer 3

Limited malaria education, low incomes, human activities like digging irrigation ditches.

Question 4

How does malaria affect health and wellbeing?

Answer 4

Fever chills, nausea, organ failure and death.

Lost income, children’s education affected along with development of the country.

Question 5

What are the management strategies to fight malaria?

Answer 5

WHO set 3 goals for 2030, reduce malaria incidence mortality by 90%, eliminate malaria in 35 countries and prevent it returning.
Spray walls and buildings with insecticide, Indoor Residual Spraying, IRS.

Question 6

What are the problems with some of the management strategies?

Answer 6

One of the insecticides, DDT kills insects and fish and can cause cancer and miscarriages in humans. Mosquitoes can also build resistance