A Report on Incidence of Malarial Disease in Local Population of Barikot, Swat

Abstract

Present study was carried out in local population of Barikot, District Swat for incidence of malarial disease. For this purpose a total of 997 individuals were screened for malarial test in the study area and divided into four category of age i.e. (1-15), (16-30), (31-45), (46-onward), gender wise, union council (Kota, Barikot, Shamozo and Ghalegi) and month wise. It was concluded that out of 997 samples, 204 (20.46%) were found positive, in which mostly under positive, under 15 year of age (23.36%), whereas less cases were recorded in adult (46 and above) 22.64. Most of the positive cases were found in the month of November, 24 out of 67 (35.82%) and less cases were noted in the month of May which are 12 out of 106 (11.32%). Incidence of the cases were found in U.C Kota with 60 positive (26.08%) out of 230 blood samples and low prevalence in U.C Ghalaigai with 42 positive (13.12%) out of 320 samples. Gender wise prevalence of malaria disease shows male 106 (27.53%) out of 385 whereas female 98 (16.01%) out of 612.

Occurrence of Malaria in the Local Population of Swat Valley, Pakistan

“…No mixed infections were observed and P. vivax and P. falciparum was found in the range of 5.78% to 1.08%, respectively (Muhammad and Hussain, 2011). Similar findings were reported in a survey carried out in the religious schools of District Bannu in 2002, and found only infection caused by P. vivax parasite (Shah et al, 2018). Similarly an investigation carried out in 20 different localities of district Bolan, Baluchistan, also showed majority of the patients were infected by P. vivax (86.2%) and a few from P. falciparum (13.7%) (Yasinzai and Kakarsulemankhel, 2009a).…”

“…Individuals having age 1-10 years were found more susceptible (11.58%) (Muhammad and Hussain, 2011). A survey was carried out in the religious schools of District Bannu in 2002, to assess the infection of malaria disease, Age wise difference was noted showing results of high to intermediate to low prevalence rate in the following order: (5.52%) in 5-9 years, (3.37%) in 10-14 years and (2.2%) in 15-19 years (Shah et al, 2018). A survey in district Panjgur, Pakistan during July 2006 to June 2008 wherein a total of 6119 cases were studied among which 2346 (38.3%) were reported as positive, 81.2% (n=334) and 80% (n=860) was the rate of infection of the malaria parasite in age groups 1-10 and 11-20, respectively (Yasinzai and Kakarsulemankhel, 2013).…”

“…Study by (Ali et al, 2013) indicated cases recorded from urban and peri-urban areas were 496 and 1400 respectively which shows peri-urban areas as having higher incidence of malaria as compared to urban areas, P. vivax was found to be the dominant specie. A survey was carried out in the religious schools of District Bannu in 2002, which found that rural areas were found to be having more prevalence (4.56%) than urban ones (2.38%) (Shah et al, 2018).…”

Expression of Malaria in Swat Valley, Pakistan

“…M alaria is considered as the most deadly parasitic disease worldwide and in developing countries malaria is credited for the high rate of morbidity and mortality (Kim et al, 2006). It is generally transmitted by a female Anopheles mosquito acting as a vector for the dispersal of protozoan parasite of the genus Plasmodium (Goering et al, 2013;Shah et al, 2018).…”