Malaria

Symptoms: 

The symptoms of malaria are moderate to severe shaking chills, high fever, profuse sweating as body temperature falls, headache, vomiting and diarrhea.

Tests to diagnose: 

Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs) and Microscopy are used in diagnosis of malaria for detecting parasites in human blood.

Treatment: 

There are several drugs which are used to treat malaria; few of them are listed below

Artemesinin-based combination treatments, (e.g, artemether-lumefantrine, artesunate-amodiaquine)

Atovaquone-proguanil

Chloroquine

Doxycycline

Mefloquine

Quinine

For more information visit the following websites

http://www.who.int/topics/malaria/en/

http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/