birds of qatar can be a threat ?
Birds of Qatar are so nice . Even that I do not know the most species that can be found around here. But they cheer me with their songs as the hot season is over .I read the other day in GUlf -Times that there is a specie which is threatening local birds and can bring malaria as well. It s singing beautifully and once it had been brought here as pet .
Though Qatar has eliminated malaria - it still sounds worrisome . This silent disease kills yearly ( Horribile dictu !)800.000 children in Africa alone .
I wonder what the odds are of getting malaria in Qatar ?
I have the capacity to bear the malaria,if birds bite me in Qatar.lol
Otherwise bird never try to bite men,even in Jungle.But Sometimes crow can attack us if we take their baby.lol
ANd hope that no bats are hanging here in Guava.
"Drink Beer Save Water"
Senti...park your car under a tree in the evenings..
and behold in the morning you will find them carpet-bombed by the birds.
Beware of them ...if they bite you ..you get malaria...lol
LOL jackmohan,I never see the bird in Qatar except ZOo.
"Drink Beer Save Water"
I think that this thread is completely mis-Titled. :-)
birds of qatar ...
This is a really funny ...first I thought it must be a joke "Eliminating malaria in Qatar".
Mosquito is itself a rare species in Qatar. Yet they claimed to eliminate it cause without eliminating mosquitos they could not have eliminated Malaria.
Yet there are some oil-dump-pits around Dukhan where there are alot of mosquitoes.
So they have not yet eliminated Mosquitoes and thus have a chance to breed and regroup maybe during the rains.
As for the birds they seem to be confusing the avain flu with malaria. A lot of these birds dive-bomb my car early in the morning leaving my car very dirty.
If they are allowing to shooting and eliminating these birds I volunteer for free, but should receive a certificate & medal a-la Asian Games..lol
never mind that they drink from the pool.........they also poop in the pool ;-)
I had thought like that before -malaria is caused by the parasite carried by some special kind of mosquitos . So what kind of challenge Qatar must face according to Herve Verhoosel, Adviser, Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership, WHO?
Those birds are migratory birds, meaning when they travel to other parts of the world, they get bitten by the mosquitoes too.
Their foraging and their patterns of reproduction in most wild birds is the same or equal.
The Red Pope of Qatar Living
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ALMA WAD
I'm going to do your homework for know.
First: I found your information trust worthless. The Peninsula are NOT A MEDICAL INSTITUTION. Malaria is not transmitted to other people. Once you get bitting by the mosquito and not treated with medicine you could die.
Two: If Qatar is avoiding the re-entry of people with malaria is for the lost of man hours and the medical cost of treating these people in Qatar. Remenber Malaria is only transmitted by the mosquito, infected blood transfusion and not person to person.
Three: This web site will help to understand malaria:
http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/
Malaria Facts
On This Page:
Malaria in the United States | Malaria Worldwide | Biology, Pathology, Epidemiology | Prevention and Treatment
Malaria in the United States
* 1,337 cases of malaria, including 8 deaths, were reported for 2002 in the United States, even though malaria has been eradicated in this country since the early 1950's
* Of the 1,337 malaria cases reported for 2002 in the United States, all but five were imported, i.e., acquired in malaria-endemic countries.
* Between 1957 and 2003, in the United States, 63 outbreaks of locally transmitted mosquito-borne malaria have occurred; in such outbreaks, local mosquitoes become infected by biting persons carrying malaria parasites (acquired in endemic areas) and then transmit malaria to local residents.
* Of the ten species of Anopheles mosquitoes found in the United States, the two species that were responsible for malaria transmission prior to eradication (Anopheles quadrimaculatus in the east and An. freeborni in the west) are still widely prevalent; thus there is a constant risk that malaria could be reintroduced in the United States.
* During 1963-1999, 93 cases of transfusion-transmitted malaria were reported in the United States; approximately two thirds of these cases could have been prevented if the implicated donors had been deferred according to established guidelines.
Malaria Worldwide
* Forty-one percent of the world's population live in areas where malaria is transmitted (e.g., parts of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Central and South America, Hispaniola, and Oceania).
* Each year 350–500 million cases of malaria occur worldwide, and over one million people die, most of them young children in sub-Saharan Africa.
* In areas of Africa with high malaria transmission, an estimated 990,000 people died of malaria in 1995 – over 2700 deaths per day, or 2 deaths per minute.
* In 2002, malaria was the fourth cause of death in children in developing countries, after perinatal conditions (conditions occurring around the time of birth), lower respiratory infections (pneumonias), and diarrheal diseases. Malaria caused 10.7% of all children's deaths in developing countries.
* In Malawi in 2001, malaria accounted for 22% of all hospital admissions, 26% of all outpatient visits, and 28% of all hospital deaths. Not all people go to hospitals when sick or having a baby, and many die at home. Thus the true numbers of death and disease caused by malaria are likely much higher.
Biology, Pathology, Epidemiology
* Residents of Asembo Bay (Western Kenya) were bitten 60-300 times a year by a malaria-carrying mosquito in the 1990's, before control measures (including the use of insecticide-treated bed nets) were put in place.
* Among the four malaria species that infect humans, Plasmodium vivax and P. ovale can develop dormant liver stages that can reactivate after symptomless intervals of up to 2 (P. vivax) to 4 years (P. ovale).
* 84% of the blood transfusions given in March-June 2000 in a major hospital in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo) were for anemia caused by malaria.
* Pregnant women have increased susceptibility to Plasmodium falciparum malaria; in malaria-endemic countries, P. falciparum contributes to 8-14% of low birth weight, which in turn decreases the chance of a baby’s survival
* After a single sporozoite (the parasite form inoculated by the female mosquito) of Plasmodium falciparum invades a liver cell, the parasite grows in 6 days and produces 30,000-40,000 daughter cells (merozoites) which are released into the blood when the liver cell ruptures. In the blood, after a single merozoite invades a red blood cell, the parasite grows in 48 hours and produces 8-24 daughter cells, which are released into the blood when the red blood cell ruptures.
Prevention and Treatment
* Four Nobel prizes have been awarded for work associated with malaria, to Sir Ronald Ross (1902), Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1907), Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1927) and Paul Hermann Muller (1948).
* Two important currently used antimalarial drugs are derived from plants whose medicinal values had been noted for centuries: artemisinin from the Qinghao plant (Artemisia annua L, China, 4th century) and quinine from the cinchona tree (South America, 17th century).
* Insecticide-treated bed nets decreased the mortality of children aged 1-11 months in a trial in western Kenya in 1997-1999.
* A survey in Southeast Asia in 1999-2000 showed that of 104 shop-bought samples purportedly containing the antimalarial drug artesunate, 38% contained no artesunate.
* The average cost for potentially life-saving treatments of malaria are estimated to be US$0.13 for chloroquine, US$0.14 for sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, and US$2.68 for a 7-day course of quinine.
Date: April 11, 2007
Content source: National Center for Infectious Diseases, Division of Parasitic Diseases
The Red Pope of Qatar Living
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_of_Qatar
it is also interesting
THE Common Myna, found in large numbers in Doha and suburbs, endangers the local bird species by competing for food and nesting, a study by Qatar University’s Environment Studies Centre (ESC) has stated.
“One of the top three on the list of the world’s worst invasive alien bird species, the Common Myna is also a source of bird malaria,” it is explained in a report published in ESC’s Arakiyat bulletin.
The species, a prolific breeder, damages fruits and crops, and feeds on eggs and chicks of native birds reducing the local biodiversity, according to Noora bint Jabor al-Thani, the report’s author.
Native to southeastern Asia, the Common Myna was introduced almost all over the world in tropical and sub-tropical countries as a means of biological control over insects and pests.
Talking to The Peninsula here yesterday, Herve Verhoosel, Adviser, Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership, WHO, said Qatar, which has been enlisted by WHO in its Group1-A category (the countries which have eliminated malaria), is facing a challenge to prevent the re-entry of local malaria transmission due to the frequent movements of people from malaria endemic countries.
Alma wad
Malaria is carried by a mosquito not a bird.
What you need to worried about is that you leave those wild birds alone and don't touch them with your bare hands, because they could carried a viral strain of avian flu. That could will kill you, since there is no vaccination available for them. Leave the wilderness wild and not you in a wild fire of fever in a hospital.
and do me a favor do your research and science homework first.....
The Red Pope of Qatar Living
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I hate when I'm swimming and they drink from the pool LOL
wild birds (avian type only) --- to be much much dangerous. they are to be carry many viral diesease. please not be touch with bare hand ---- if they are to be sick and to come into house -- i am to be serious.
which birds are those?? I haven't heard of them...and how do they bring malaria?