"The malaria in Israel"

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The malaria in the Land of Israel was a plague that prevailed throughout the Land of Israel because of the ecological, geographical and Sunni conditions in the region. The plague severely damaged the communities of the country and took the lives of many people from the Bible to the final spoken in the early 1960s. The plague was also the main problem that the Zionist settlement enterprise had at the beginning of it, because it had an effect on the location of the new colonies that were established at the time, and also on the daily routine of Jewish settlers in Israel.

disease of malaria

Malaria (Latin: Malaria; or rash fever) is a infectious disease caused by five species of the single Protestant and plasma cells. This is the deadliest disease caused by a Protestant.

The two common species are Plasmodium falciparum (the most dangerous) and P. vivax; other species, less common are P. ovale, P.IGMAe and P. Knowlesi. This parasite is transmitted by the mosquitoes. The mosquitoes (always female) shed the blood of an infected person; after eight days of the development of the plasma in her body he is found in her rock glands (where he is arranged until her death), are available for transfer.

The parasite is relatively protected from the counter reaction of the immune system because it is found in the liver and the red blood cells. However, blood cells that have been infected with the disease and are freely destroyed. To prevent this fate, the parasite produces a dairy coating that makes it difficult for the immune action.

The symptoms of malaria include high fever, trembling, arthritis pain, intense headache, vomiting that may contain blood, sweating multi, chilling, diarrhea, abdominal pain, an abnormal general feeling. It may also be a feeling of skin stabbings and blood sugarlessness, especially in malaria caused by P. falciparum. These symptoms appear in cycles of two to four days.

Complications of malaria include coma, and about 20% of malaria’s cases are not treated – death. Young children are particularly vulnerable.

The Aphesus in Israel

Anopheles is a mosquito in the entire family. The mosquito was negatively known for its role in transmitting malaria parasites. Of the 430 species that belong to this type, only 16 of them were found in the Land of Israel: algeriensis, claviger, coustani, hyrcanus, marteri, sacharovi, dthali, hispaniola, multicolor, pharoensis, pulcherrimus, rhodesiensis, sergenti, superkhicia, teligma. Of these 6 species are considered to be potential transmitters of malaria.

The Ephesus Yoshi was common throughout Israel until the mid-1960s. Following the contamination infection, the use of different pesticides (including gmum samples imported from America), the water drainage that stands, drying the bites, and in particular the patient’s drying (which was the main habitat of the ophessses), significantly decreased the amount of anaples.

Today, there are still small populations in Israel of the Aphesus mosquitoes of species that transmit malaria, but the limited number of them and the absence of parasites that are likely to erupt from multiple malaria epidemics as in the past is zero.

Pre-exposed malaria
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In 76 BC, after the war campaign