Malaria muscieto

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1. Yellow Fever

Yellow fever is a tropical disease that is spread to humans by infected mosquitoes.

People get yellow fever from the bite of an infected female mosquito. The mosquito injects the yellow fever virus into the bite.

What are the signs and symptoms of yellow fever?

Many yellow fever infections are mild, but the disease can cause severe, life-threatening illness. Symptoms of severe infection are high fever, chills, headache, muscle aches, vomiting, and backache. After a brief recovery period, the infection can lead to shock, bleeding, and kidney and liver failure. Liver failure causes jaundice (yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes), which gives yellow fever its name.

2. Malaria

Symptoms of malaria include

• Fever
• Shaking chills
• Headache
• Muscle aches
• Tiredness
• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Diarrhoea
• Anaemia
• Jaundice (yellow colouring of the skin and eyes)
• Kidney failure
• Seizures
• Mental confusion
• Coma
• Death

3. Other arthropod borne diseases

Human trypanosomiasis in some isolated rural foci.
Viral haemorrhagic fevers transmitted by mosquito / tick / sand fly bites.
Schistosomiasis occurs.

4. Food & water borne diseases.

Diarrhoea disease, dysentery, typhoid fever, hepatitis A and E widespread.
Cholera, Hydatid disease & Dracuunculiasis have been reported.

Persons with typhoid fever usually have a sustained:

• Fever as high as 39° to 40° C (103° to 104° F )
• Malaise
• Abdominal pains
• Headache
• Loss of appetite
• Rash of flat, rose-colored spots.

Symptoms for Hepatitus A : Adults will have signs and symptoms more often than children will.

• jaundice
• fatigue
• abdominal pain
• loss of appetite
• nausea
• diarrhoea
• fever

Cholera : The disease is characterised by:

• Profuse watery diarrhoea
• Vomiting
• Leg cramps.
• Rapid loss of body fluids
• Dehydration
• Shock.
• Without treatment, death can occur within hours.

5. Other diseases.

Outbreaks of meningococcal meningitis especially  savanna areas during dry season

• High fever
• Headache
• Stiff neck
• Rash

Hepatitis B is hyperendemic.

Symptoms are:

• Jaundice
• Fatigue
• Abdominal pain
• Loss of appetite
• Nausea, vomiting 
• Joint pain

Polio is endemic and Trachoma widespread.

Rabies:

Side effects include:

• cold or flue-like symptoms
• Fever
• Malaise

HIV and AIDS very prevalent.