{"id":7527,"date":"2026-04-26T12:18:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7527"},"modified":"2026-04-26T19:29:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T13:59:30","slug":"malaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/malaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Malaria Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the World Health Organization announced that it had given prequalification approval to a malaria treatment for newborns and infants for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Malaria<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Malaria is a life-threatening febrile illness <\/span><b>caused by Plasmodium parasites.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Transmission: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">transmitted through the <\/span><b>bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>not contagious<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but can be spread through <\/span><b>infected blood or contaminated needles.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Risk: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Infants, children under 5 years, pregnant women and girls, travellers and people with HIV or AIDS are at higher risk of severe infection.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Symptoms<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Symptoms appear 10\u201315 days after infection and include fever, chills, and headache.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Severe symptoms can include <\/span><b>seizures, difficulty breathing, jaundice<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, dark urine, and death if untreated.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Treatments include<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>ACTs <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/artemisinin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Artemisinin<\/a><\/strong>-based Combination Therapies) for P. falciparum.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Chloroquine f<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or P. vivax\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Primaquine to prevent relapses in P. vivax and P. ovale infections.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/health\/who-approves-first-malaria-treatment-for-infants\/article70904945.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaria is a life-threatening febrile illness caused by Plasmodium parasites, transmitted through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. Read more about Malaria, Transmission, Symptoms, Risk, Treatment, News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":46844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[326,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-7527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-malaria","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7527"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100375,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7527\/revisions\/100375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}