Another wave of covid-19 is fierce, but while preventing and controlling COVID-19, we cannot ignore the prevention and control of other infectious diseases, especially some infectious diseases with similar fever symptoms to new crown pneumonia, such as imported malaria.
Recently, there have been such cases in a certain city...
In 2020, he went to Nigeria to work;
Return to China in August 2021 and lift the quarantine after 14 days of medical isolation and observation at the first point of entry;
On the way home from the first entry isolation point, there are uncomfortable symptoms such as fever and dizziness, and the two nucleic acid tests for the new crown pneumonia virus are negative, so what causes fever?
Through the joint diagnosis of experts from the Municipal Hospital and the Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the microscopic examination of malaria parasites and the detection of rapid diagnostic reagents were carried out, and Plasmodium falciparum was found, which was diagnosed as imported falciparum malaria, and standardized treatment was carried out in the municipal malaria designated treatment hospital.
The imported malaria case, which returned from abroad, also developed fever symptoms similar to COVID-19, and if malaria parasite testing is not carried out in time, it is likely to delay the patient's condition.
So, imported malaria and COVID-19 have similar febrile symptoms, what is the difference between the two diseases?
With this table, can you already distinguish malaria from COVID-19?
Malaria is one of the insect-borne infectious diseases that seriously endanger people's health and life safety, and more than 400,000 people die from malaria infection every year.
Malaria trivia
1. Malaria is an insect-borne infectious disease caused by the bite of Anopheles mosquitoes;
2. Periodic chills, fever and sweating are typical symptoms of malaria, commonly known as "swinging";
3. Africa and South-East Asia are highly endemic areas for malaria;
4. Falciparum malaria is more dangerous, such as not diagnosed and treated in time, it is easy to cause severe malaria, and patients will be comatose, kidney failure, etc., and even life-threatening.
5. Avoiding Anopheles bites is the simplest and most effective measure to prevent malaria.
Friendly reminder
Returnees from abroad during the pandemic
1. If you have been to high malaria epidemic areas such as Africa and Southeast Asia, once fever symptoms occur, you should go to a medical institution in time, and do not take your own medicine at home;
2. When visiting the doctor, in addition to the new crown nucleic acid test, the medical staff should be reminded of their travel history in the high malaria area and conduct malaria parasite examination;
3. Wear a medical surgical mask during the treatment process and avoid taking public transportation as much as possible.
For healthcare workers
While preventing and controlling the new crown, it is necessary to carry out malaria parasite testing for fever patients returning to Africa, Southeast Asia and other malaria-endemic areas in a timely manner so as not to delay the patient's condition;
If malaria is diagnosed, it should be reported to the "Direct Reporting System for Infectious Disease Networks" within 24 hours, and antimalarial treatment should be given in a timely manner, or transferred to the local malaria designated hospital as soon as possible.
Epidemic prevention and control is everyone's responsibility
When you return from abroad, you must beware of malaria