Question

Which one is the best way to eradicate malaria?
A.Using mosquito repellent oils
B.Killing of culex larvae
C.Killing Anopheles larvae
D.Killing of adult anopheles

Answer 1

Hint: Malaria is borne from mosquitoes and it is an infectious disease that affects humans and other animals. Malaria has the symptoms that is fever, tiredness, vomiting, and headaches and in some cases causes yellow skin, seizures, coma, or death.

Complete answer:
1.Malaria is caused by microorganisms which have a single-cell of the Plasmodium group.
2.The disease is caused by an infected female Anopheles mosquito by the bite of this mosquito the parasites enter into the human blood from the mosquito's saliva.
3.These parasites go into the liver where they grow and replicate and produce a number of copies of their own and then spread further.
4.Four Species of parasite that is: P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, and P. malariae and out of four P. falciparum is dangerous. The fifth one is P. knowlesi not common in humans.
5.Malaria found by the microscopic examination of blood test by the use of mosquito nets and insect repellents or with mosquito-control measures such as spraying insecticides and draining standing water.

Hence, the correct answer is option(C).

Note: The treatment for malaria is a combination of various antimalarial drugs that commonly use artemisinin. Second line drugs are mefloquine, lumefantrine, or sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine or sometimes quinine is also given when artemisinin is not present.