Factors that Induce Risk for Malaria
- Climatic factors play a huge role in those susceptible to contacting Malaria. Anopheles mosquitoes in Sub-Saharan Africa carrying the Plasmodium falciparum can survive and multiply in temperate and human environments where rainfall is frequent.
- Those adults most susceptible to malaria include pregnant women due to the sharing of the immune system; these women have a high risk of having severe malarial anemia which can contribute to pregnancy complications.
- Those adults that are infected with HIV and AIDS also have a high probability of contracting malaria. Co-infection and interaction between the two diseases have major public health indications.
- Travelers from non-endemic malaria countries and those who were not exposed at childhood also pose high risk to contracting malaria.
