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Malaria can cause your kidneys or liver to fail, or your spleen to rupture. Malaria parasites have a love for red blood cells and the liver cells because they feed on these cells. In addition, they break down red blood cells, releasing hemoglobin products that damage the kidney. The spleen, which filters blood, attempts to trap and destroy the parasites and these hemoglobin products, as a defense. In the process, the spleen swells and you feel pains in the the upper left part of your abdomen, just beneath the ribs(where the spleen is located), especially when you breathe in, as the diaphragm massages it when contracting and pushing on this organ. When out of a malaria endemic zone for a long time, one is more susceptible to a severe attack of malaria, which can result in fatal complications. The key to preventing malaria complications is to treat malaria early enough, before the damage is done. Better still, one should begin to take prophylaxis immediately, on entry into a malari...

According to UN report, Cancer, diabetes kill millions, cost trillions globally. Nearly two-thirds of deaths are caused by noncommunicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart and lung disease, according to U.N. estimates and preliminary results of a new study. I agree with the report and advance that chronic non-communicable diseases like cancer, diabetes, heart and lung diseases are being driven mainly by sedentary lifestyle, poor eating habits and consumption of toxins. An aspect, which seems to disappear from the radar, is the presence of chronic infections and the resulting damaging inflammation, which is contributing to cancers, diabetes, heart and lung diseases. We should not lose sight of the fact that most of these factors, infections and lifestyles, work in combination Resistance by microbes to drugs which set out to target them, is making treatment to be palliative rather than curative. Hence, although acute manifestations of some of the communicable infectious di...