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Epideomiolgy of Malaria in India
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EPIDEOMIOLGY OF MALARIA IN INDIA
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 1
CONTEXT: DEMOGRAPHY/DISEASE PREVALENCE/EPIDEMIOLOGY............................ 1
Prevalence................................................................................................................................... 1
Demography................................................................................................................................ 2
Epidemiology.............................................................................................................................. 3
METHOD/ SOURCE DATA ......................................................................................................... 5
DISCUSSION................................................................................................................................. 6
REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................... 9
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LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
Figure 1Trend of malaria in India................................................................................................... 2
Figure 3 Graph drawn on basis of number of species of Anopheles .............................................. 5
Figure 5 Age standardized mortality............................................................................................... 6
Table 1 Country wide epidemiological situation (1995-2010)....................................................... 2
Table 2 Distribution of species of vectors in India......................................................................... 4
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INTRODUCTION
Malaria has been defined as a mosquito borne disease, which is caused because of a
parasite known as plasmodium. It is known to be transmitted from the bite of infected
mosquitoes. The disease begins due to a bite of an infected female mosquito known as
Anopheles through which plasmodium or protists enters into the circulatory system. Then, in
blood, the protists travel towards the liver where it matures and reproduces to increase in
number. The main symptoms of this disease include fever, vomiting and headache and this
usually appears after 10-15 days of the bite of mosquito (Nosten and White, 2007).
There are five species of Plasmodium, which can infect and get transmitted through
humans. Its species P. falciparum and P. vivax are mainly responsible for causing a majority of
deaths and therefore, the two are considered to be the most fatal. The other two are P. malariae
and P. ovale, which are not fatal and are mild (Ollhoff, 2010).
Malaria is considered to be as one of the largest infections of micro parasite leading to
millions of deaths and especially children in each year. According to WHO (World Health
Organization), this disease has been declared as a highly endemic one in 109 countries of the
world in the year 2008. It is spreading rapidly in various countries of the world and especially the
tropical countries of central and South America, Africa and Asia. It is so because in these areas
warm temperatures, high rainfall along with stagnant water provides ideal habitat for the growth
of mosquitoes. Though various programmes for the prevention of the disease have been initiated
but still the number of deaths due to this is increasing (Malaria, 2013).
CONTEXT: DEMOGRAPHY/DISEASE PREVALENCE/EPIDEMIOLOGY
Prevalence
According to the National Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in India, malaria is
known to be one of the major causes of deaths and especially among children. According to
WHO, malaria has lead to approximately 15000 deaths per year in the country among which
5000 is among children and 10,000 thereafter. It has lowered the physical and social standards
and economic progress of the entire nation. WHO has reported that from 1990s till data the
number of cases reported are approximately 15 million with average 19500 to 20000 deaths per
year. The expansive geography and diverse climate are the factors which provides an ideal
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climate due to which growth of malarial parasites and their vectors is supported (World Malaria
Report 2009, 2010).
Demography
Figure 1Trend of malaria in India
(Source: National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme, 2013)
Table 1 Country wide epidemiological situation (1995-2010)
Year Population (in
‘000)
Total Malaria
Cases (million)
P.falciparum Pf % API Deaths due
to malaria
1151
1010
879
664
1048
932
cases (million)
1.14
1.18
1.01
1.03
1.14
1.05
1.01
0.90
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
888143
872906
884719
910884
948656
970275
984579
1013942
2.93
3.04
2.66
2.22
2.28
2.03
2.09
1.84
38.84
38.86
37.87
46.35
49.96
51.54
48.20
48.74
3.29
3.48
3.01
2.44
2.41
2.09
2.12
1.82
1005
973
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Epidemiology
The fact that malaria in India has a diverse epidemiology is shown by the presence of
different species of vectors of the disease. The most geographically vector is Anopheles
culicifacies which further consists of its siblings namely, A, B, C, D, and E. Though these
species do not differ physically from one another but variations do occur in physiological terms
on basis of their capacity to cause infection. Among the sibling species, A is the one which is
most susceptible to infection while species B is least susceptible. Other malarial vectors include
Anopheles fluviatilis, Anopheles minimu and many more. All these are prevalent in the country
causing infection. The common parasites of the disease are plasmodium vivax which is most
commonly found in India. Then next is plasmodium falciparum which is the only one
responsible for death. Others which are not found in India are plasmodium malariae and ovale
(Malaria in India, 2004).
Table 2 Distribution of species of vectors in India
Primary vectors No of sibling No of sibling Members in India Ecological
distribution
Rural/peri urban
species species in India
An. culcifacies
An. minimus
5
3
5
1
A,B,C,D,E
An. minimus, An.
minimus s.s.
S,T,U,V
North eastern
states
An. fluvatis
An. sundaicus
4
3
4
1
Foothills/forest
Andaman Nicobar
islands
New cytotype D
An. dirus 7 2 An. baimali, An. North
states
eastern
elegans
(Source: Malaria in India: The Center for the Study of Complex Malaria in India, 2012)
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7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
No of sibling species in
India
No of sibling species
An. An. An. An. An. dirus
culcifacies minimus fluvatis sundaicus
Figure 2 Graph drawn on basis of number of species of Anopheles
METHOD/ SOURCE DATA
The hypothesis which is taken is that whether there is a difference in the prevalence of
malarial deaths related to age or not. The main aim is to find the possible range of age of
mortality rate in India due to malaria. As a source of primary data, published survey in journal of
US National Library of Medicine was referred in which study is done to find out the adult and
child mortality in India. For this, families and other respondents were interviewed and asked
about each of the deaths which occurred because of the disease. The deaths attributed to malaria
were found to be correlated geographically with local malaria transmission rates which were
derived independently from malaria control programme. It was found that 205,000 malaria
deaths per year occur before 70 years of age. The figure is approximately 55000 in early
childhood, 30,000 at ages 5-14 and 1, 20,000 at the age of 15-69 years of age (Dhingra and et.
al., 2010).
For secondary sources, data provided by World Health Organization and National Vector
Disease Control Programme by National Institute of Health and Family Welfare are taken.
RESULTS
Figure1
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This table shows the geographic variation occurring among few states of India in the
Million Death Study (MDS). The study depicts the deaths due to malaria at ages 0-69 years and
also by National Vector-Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP).
Figure 2
Figure 3 Age standardized mortality
The above figure shows the geographic distribution of mortality due to malaria in India.
States which have high mortality rates includes Orissa, Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand. It also
includes north eastern states except Sikkim.
DISCUSSION
Key findings
In order to find an association of death rate and age it was found that there exists that a
significant difference between the two or not. From figure 1, it was seen that although the death
rate attributed to malaria was found to be high among young children but the rate became
comparably high in later middle age. The rates indicate an overall probability of 1·8% of dying
from malaria before 70 years of age in the absence of other causes. Also, it was found that about
half of the 205,000 malaria-attributed deaths that occurred before the age of 70 years occurred
only in a few high-malaria states. This was highest in Orissa which accounted for over 50,000
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deaths. The study is based purely on random variation confidence interval of 99% for the total
number of deaths before the age 70. The confidence interval means a type of estimation of an
interval within a parameter of population. With help of this, reliability of an estimate is indicated
(Kumar and et. al., 2007).
A range of values exist within the confidence interval and is considered to be a good
estimate of the parameter of the population under study. This value is represented by percentage
and with help of this significant level is also reflected. A 95% confidence level indicates a
significance level of 0.05 which is used to test a hypothesis. This confidence interval is
determined by the researcher. Confidence intervals are shown at either 95% or 99%. Here, in this
study, a confidence interval of 99% shows a significant difference of 0.05 (Sample Size
Calculator, 2012).
To reach the final results, four correlations were made that were then supported by
applying values of correlation to find the level of association. Firstly, from table 1, the
proportional distribution of malarial deaths across the major states was found to be similar to that
of the national malaria control program for the few positive slides which were then clinically
confirmed. A total of only 5647 deaths occurred at all ages during 2000-2005. Secondly, the
occurrence of deaths varied seasonally, that is, it was higher some time after the wet season
began although perhaps it was not as extreme as was expected for P. falciparum malaria (Snow
and et. al., 2005).
Thirdly, a geographical correlation was made with the district-level P. falciparum
transmission rates which were indicated independently by the Indian malaria control programme
as shown in figure 2 with rates of fever that were reported by researchers by conducting
nationwide surveys at district-level of 700,000 households. Another hypothesis which was
assumed to be null was that there was no significant difference between the rates of death
indicated by the Indian malaria control programme and the survey conducted independently. The
alternative hypothesis is that there is a significant difference between the two. It came out to be,
r = 0.59 and p<0.0001.
The value of correlation lies between the ranges of -1.00 to +1.00. It shows a negative
and positive probability between the variables. A positive value suggests that they are linked and
a negative value gives that variables are not correlated. The value of p implies the probability of
obtaining whether the hypothesis is to be accepted or not. If value of p is less than 0.01 or 0.05
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may happen that some kind of biasness may arise among interviewers while taking the response
from the people (Dev, Ansari, Hira, and Barman, 2001).
The strengths of information taken from National Vector Disease Control Programme
which is a unit of National Institute of Health and Family Welfare in India is that the data taken
for reference is taken at the national level covering each area and can be relied upon.
The limitation can be that sometimes it may not be possible for the authorities to collect
the entire data and the process can become cumbersome sometimes (Das and et. al., 2011).
Conclusion
According to me, the epidemiology of malaria in India is known to exist since many
years but still not many preventive measures are provided for entirely curing it. Apart from this,
level of awareness among people related to this disease is not much and that is why public is
easily prone to this. Rural people, especially, more endangered to the disease because less level
of cleanliness in maintained in the rural areas. If in any area, water or garbage is collected for a
number of days then this will encourage the growth of mosquitoes which obviously is not a good
sign. So, the government should increase the awareness level and educate people on how they
can prevent malaria in their households (Mendis, Sina and Marchesini, 2001).
While conducting a survey, it should be kept in mind that data and information provided
is taken from reliable sources so that study or evaluation can be done in the correct manner.
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