Malaria: How it affects the lives on Earth By: Nyah Walters

What is Malaria? Malaria is a life threatening germ inside a mosquitos spit. The four main types of parasites that cause Malaria are : The plasmodium ovale, the plasmodium falciparum ( the deadliest ), plasmodium malaria and the plasmodium vivax. Some symptoms of Malaria include anemia ( lack of red blood cells causing weariness), headaches, nausea/ vomiting, and a fever. Mosquitos kill more people each year than sharks. plasmodium vivax

Where can you get malaria?

How does Malaria affect the countries? Since Malaria is most common in Africa, I will explain how it affects them there. In Africa, it is likely for someone with malaria to die from it due to lack of medicine that can cure it. More than one million children die from Malaria each year in Africa. That’s one child gone per thirty seconds. Africa has a lot more to worry about than just Malaria. They don’t have as much clean water ( Young woman walk with huge buckets every day to give their family dirty water ), the lack of schools, wars, equality issues ( girls vs. boys ; who gets what) and much more.

Why we all should help… Malaria isn’t something that will just go away. Victims need all the help they can get when their family or even country is in distress. We should help because that is the right thing to do. Just because in Canada we have clean water and free health care and NO Malaria doesn't mean it doesn’t affect us. We can’t ignore those who we helped before ( the Canadian red cross helped Africans in a village become stronger ). In my opinion, we shouldn’t have to donate money to save lives but unfortunately, that’s the way it is.

How we can help ! By participating in various charities, fundraisers, and other campaigns to raise awareness, we could help loads of people dealing with Malaria. There is a foundation called the “ Against Malaria Foundation”. AMF mostly buys mosquito nets because they believe that it is the most affective way to stop Malaria. They accept donations to help fund their mosquito massacre. They believe that everyone deserves to live.

Can we solve this problem and how effective have we been at solving it? Thank you scientists for inventing a cure. But the cure doesn’t necessarily help everyone fighting Malaria since not everyone has enough money to buy a mosquito net, never mind a cure. So, how else can we help? As I have said before, by donating. But donating may only cover a small portion of the problem. Can we solve this problem? Maybe. But I don’t think that it the solution is any time soon since all humans really do about solving problems is fundraisers.

What Malaria does to people…

Red nose day Red nose day began in 1988 by the comic relief team ( Bob Zmuda, Jane Tewson, Richard Curtis, Peter Bennett – Jones and Lenny Henry) to help people in Africa and the United Kingdom who are going through tough times ( money issues, illnesses). To support the people dealing with a lot of problems, comic relief encourages people to take a silly picture wearing a red clown nose to raise money and awareness every two years. A bunch of British celebrities have participated such as one direction, Olly Murs, and Katy Perry.

Red nose day participants

A video on red nose day/ Malaria

Sites that I used ( URL addresses) Fight-Against-Malaria Fight-Against-Malaria medicines?gclid=CKyWwsOP2sMCFYI6aQodfWUAxg medicines?gclid=CKyWwsOP2sMCFYI6aQodfWUAxg

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