Question

A 17-year-old boy is suffering from high fever with profuse sweating and chills. Choose the correct option from the following diseases which explains these symptoms and rule out the rest with adequate reason.
(a) Typhoid
(b) Viral fever
(c) Malaria
(d) None of these

Answer 1

Hint: It is a life-threatening disease. Once when the parasites enter into our body, they travel to the liver and that is the place where they mature. After a few days, the mature parasites enter the bloodstream and it begins to infect the red blood cells.

Complete answer:
(A) In typhoid, the symptoms are high fever, diarrhea, and vomiting. It is a bacterial infection.
(B) In viral fever, it affects the body and its characteristics by high fever, burning eyes, headaches. It is a group of viral infections.
(C) In malaria, it is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects humans and other animals and is caused by parasite single-celled microorganisms belonging to the plasmodium group.

Additional Information:
It’s generally transmitted by the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito. The infected mosquitoes carry the Plasmodium parasite. At the point when this mosquito bites you, the parasite is delivered into your circulatory system.
 Malaria can take place if a mosquito infected with the Plasmodium parasite bites you. Basically, there are four types of malaria parasites that can infect humans: Plasmodium vivax, P. ovale, P. malaria, and P. falciparum.
P. falciparum is responsible for a more dangerous form of the disease and those who contract this form of malaria have a higher risk of death. In congenital malaria, an infected mother can likewise pass the disease to her infant at birth.
In addition, certain types of malaria parasites, such as P. vivax and P. ovale, have liver stages; it is the place where the parasite can live in your body for an all-inclusive period of time.
So, the correct answer is ‘Malaria’

Note: The symptoms in the case of malaria generally develop within 10 days to 4 weeks following the infection. In a few cases, symptoms may not develop for several months. Some malarial parasites can enter the body however will be dormant for extended periods of time.