A scientist in Africa observed that pregnant women are infected with malaria more than non-pregnant women. As you may know, the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum is transmitted by mosquitos. Discuss with one or two students sitting nearby and speculate a reason as to why this is happening and how you can prevent this.

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16 September, 08:55

A scientist in Africa observed that pregnant women are infected with malaria more than non-pregnant women. As you may know, the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum is transmitted by mosquitos. Discuss with one or two students sitting nearby and speculate a reason as to why this is happening and how you can prevent this.

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Rylie Suarez · Answer 1

Answer:Africa as a region has lots of large dams where mosquitoes breed.

Pregnant women are more suspectible to malaria in pregnancy than non pregnant women because in a pregnant woman immune system is usually suppressed. Her immune system usually does the fight back the malaria parasite.

This can be prevented by using mosquitoes nets as coverings to avoid being bitten by the parasites.

Also, pregnant women should be encouraged to use malaria repellant cream, this cream scares mosquitoes away.