Do u know how it feels if a tiny creatures comes and whispers in your ear. “Buzzz….I am here and am going to bite you”. This warning in sleep is very annoying and while asleep you cannot do much about it. It keeps on biting you and you cannot get hold of it. All efforts to kills this monster (mosquito) go in vain. It warns and bites again and again.
With the arrival of summer this unwelcome guest comes to our houses and we have to be very careful to keep them out.
Mosquitos are amazingly complicated creatures. Allah Ta’alah in all his glory gives us the example of a mosquito in Quran, to show us how this little creature is great in character. A female mosquito has following characteristics.
• It has a hundred eyes on its head
• It has 48 teeth in its mouth
• Inside its little body there are three complete hearts.
• It has six knives in its nose and each knife has a special use.
• It has three wings on each side.
• This insect’s body contains a digital X-RAY like device and the mosquito uses it to distinguish the human skin in the dark, in Violet colour.
• Its body contains a small device that works as a local anaesthetic to help this insect insert its thorn into our skin without us feeling it…& the pain we feel is caused by the loss of blood.
• It has an instrument for blood testing, because it doesn’t like all blood types.
• It has also a special mechanism to keep the blood from coagulating so it can draw blood fast through its thorns.
And the most strange discovery by the modern science is that there is another very small Microscopic Insect living on top of this Mosquito! And that’s what Allah means by “Mosquito and what’s above it”
“Indeed, Allah is not timid to present an example – that of a mosquito or what is smaller on top of it. And those who have believed know that it is the truth from their Lord. But as for those who disbelieve, they say, “What did Allah intend by this as an example?”He misleads many thereby and guides many thereby. And He misleads not except the defiantly disobedient, “
Quran- Surah Baqarah-Verse 26
Malaria and Dengue
Mosquitoes do not come alone they bring malaria and dengue along.
Malaria is caused by a parasite called Plasmodium, which is transmitted via the bites of infected mosquitoes. In the human body, the parasites multiply in the liver, and then infect red blood cells.
Symptoms of malaria include fever, headache, and vomiting, and usually appear between 10 and 15 days after the mosquito bite. If not treated, malaria can quickly become life-threatening by disrupting the blood supply to vital organs. In many parts of the world, the parasites have developed resistance to a number of malaria medicines.
Key interventions to control malaria include: prompt and effective treatment with artemisinin-based combination therapies; use of insecticidal nets by people at risk; and indoor residual spraying with insecticide to control the vector mosquitoes.
Dengue viruses are transmitted to humans through the bites of infective female Aedes mosquitoes. Mosquitoes generally acquire the virus while feeding on the blood of an infected person. After virus incubation for eight to 10 days, an infected mosquito is capable, during probing and blood feeding, of transmitting the virus for the rest of its life. Infected female mosquitoes may also transmit the virus to their offspring by transovarial (via the eggs) transmission, but the role of this in sustaining transmission of the virus to humans has not yet been defined.
Infected humans are the main carriers and multipliers of the virus, serving as a source of the virus for uninfected mosquitoes. The virus circulates in the blood of infected humans for two to seven days, at approximately the same time that they have a fever; Aedes mosquitoes may acquire the virus when they feed on an individual during this period. Some studies have shown that monkeys in some parts of the world play a similar role in transmission.
Dengue fever is a severe, flu-like illness that affects infants, young children and adults, but seldom causes death.
The clinical features of dengue fever vary according to the age of the patient. Infants and young children may have a fever with rash. Older children and adults may have either a mild fever or the classical incapacitating disease with abrupt onset and high fever, severe headache, pain behind the eyes, muscle and joint pains, and rash.
Dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) is a potentially deadly complication that is characterized by high fever, often with enlargement of the liver, and in severe cases circulatory failure. The illness often begins with a sudden rise in temperature accompanied by facial flush and other flu-like symptoms. The fever usually continues for two to seven days and can be as high as 41°C, possibly with convulsions and other complications.
In moderate DHF cases, all signs and symptoms abate after the fever subsides. In severe cases, the patient’s condition may suddenly deteriorate after a few days of fever; the temperature drops, followed by signs of circulatory failure, and the patient may rapidly go into a critical state of shock and die within 12 to 24 hours, or quickly recover following appropriate medical treatment.
The Ministry of Health, Pakistan, has launched a five-year malaria control programme in 56 high-risk districts against a cumulative budgetary allocation of Rs3.4 billion. The objective is to reduce the burden of malaria by at least 50 per cent by 2010.Read more.
When government is playing its part then we should keep our homes screened and clean. Our streets, cities and our country is also our HOME!
not fair. This tiny creature kiss you to show her love and you’re complaining that its annoying?????
nice sharing,keep it up