Epidemiology of Malaria in Padre Cocha
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Epidemiology of Malaria in Padre Cocha
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In a study conducted in the Peruvian Amazon within a village that hosts more than 1400 persons called the Padre Cocha, which is on the north west of Iquitos approximately 5 kilometers, recorded high rates of malaria infections. Majority of the malaria infections, are caused by the parasite Plasmodium vivax, P. Falciparum. The former, accounts for more than 826 that are infected for every 1000 persons, while the latter accounts for more than 166 persons that are infected in every 1000 persons. In Peru the rate of infection of the disease has been rising through 1990s up to date. Peruvian ministry of health conducted a survey that indicated the disease has increased more than 7 folds, with the Plasmodium falciparum infection rising to more than 30% of the infection rates. In the village there is a health facility that is open for five days and has nurses that are well trained on the procedures of dispensing the ant-malarial drugs as well as conduction blood smears. The patients in the area have shown signs of resistance to the Chloroquine and have to be treated using the primaquine and sulfadoxine/pyrimethamani (Roper,Torres, Goicochea, Andersen, Aramburuguarda, Calampa, Hightower & Magill, 2000). Those that are also resist...