Thursday, September 10, 2009

Monkey Malaria could prove fatal in the next days

Recently Researcher found that a variety of Virus starin which was actually the cause of causing malaria in the monkey now began to wide spread among the humans also which is more fatal than the common strain of malaria.The study which is financed by the Welcome Trust, Uk charity and research done by balbir singh.

According to the study its been found that it is a P.Knowlesi strain of malaria which is the fifth strain of malaria.Its similar like P.Malarie which causes malaria in Human but P.Knowlesi is more fatal than malarie asP.Knowlesi could reproduce every 24 hours in the Blood. Research found that in kapat hospital in sarawak about 2/3rd of the people are having this strain of malaria in their body.The study showed that the number of platelets count in those patients are very less.As malaria kills more than one million people per year world wide, its warned that the western tourist may get infected to this fatal viral disease.

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