Insight

Don’t let malaria haunt you during pregnancy

From the moment a woman conceives, what runs in the mind of the family is a bundle of joy. But what lurks in the shadows of her dream is a thing called malaria. The disease, deadliest in sub-Saharan Africa, takes the blame but at no time is its vicious felt so hard than in pregnant women or in children.  Malaria is a tropical disease spread by infected female anopheles carrying a parasite called plasmodium that takes root mainly in the liver where it multiplies rapidly causing changes within the a normal body.  A recent report by the World Health Organisation indicates that 627,000 people succumbed to death in 2013 resulting from malaria.  The cold chills, high fever coupled with intervals of vomiting and general body weakness are nothing but not all to explain the end result of sleeping without a treated mosquito net. 
The New Times
Solomon Asaba