Question

Name the cure for the following disease:

Malaria

Answer 1

1. Prevention of infection by using mosquito nets, preventive drugs like quinine, and controlling the mosquito vector.
2. Keeping the patient warm, ensuring bed rest, and encouraging the intake of plenty of fluids.
3. Use of antimalarial drugs such as chloroquine, metakelfin, primaquine, and others.
4. Killing mosquito larvae by sprinkling kerosene oil on large water bodies.
5. Introducing larvivorous fishes like Gambusia minnows and trouts that feed on mosquito larvae.
6. There is also a vaccine named RTS, S/AS 01, which is the first vaccination developed against malaria.