Posts Tagged ‘fever’
Malaria
Malaria is a parasitic disease that is transmitted from human to human by the bite of infected Anopheles mosquitoes. In humans, the parasites (called sporozoites) migrate to the liver where they mature and become merozoites, which enter the bloodstream and infect red blood cells.
The parasites multiply within red corpuscles, after 48 to 72 hours, break and infect more red blood cells. The first symptoms usually occur 10 days to 4 weeks after infection, although they may appear as early as 8 days or up to 1 year thereafter. Then, symptoms of the disease occur in cycles of 48 to 72 hours.
Most symptoms are caused by the massive release of merozoites into the bloodstream, the anemia resulting from destruction of red blood cells and the problems caused by large amounts of free hemoglobin released into the circulation after the breakdown of red blood cells .
Posted in Health Care, Malaria | 
Tags: anemia, Blood, bloodstream, Causes, Chills, fever, Flu, High fevers | 
No Comments »
The Primary Liver Cancer
What is it?
The primary liver cancer is cancer that occurs in the liver spontaneously and develops depends directly on liver cells (liver cells).
Causes and risk factors
The primary liver cancer:
* Is increasing for several years;
* Is more common in some regions: Africa (tropical) and South-Eastern Asia;
* Occurs around age 60 in Europe and North America and to 35 years in Africa and Asia;
* Is mainly observed in humans;
* Is most often linked to the evolution of a pre-existing cirrhosis. In France, the cancerous cirrhosis due to alcohol varies between 10 and 30%. In the tropics, the carcinogenesis is linked to cirrhosis of viral origin (hepatitis B). When liver cancer develops on a liver showing no lesions of cirrhosis, the role of dietary factors has been advanced, and especially that of certain toxins (aflatoxin contaminant of peanut flour in Africa). Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Cancer | Tags: alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), anemia, fatigue, fever, hepatomegaly, hypercalcemia, liver cells, loss of appetite, the liver, The primary liver cancer, Weight Loss | No Comments »