COMPARISON OF THE RAINING SEASON’S INCIDENCE OF MALARIA IN MICHIKA
Fami Elijah Pakka
Department 0f Biology
Adamawa State College of Education, Hong.
ABSTARCT:
This work is a compilation and processing of all malaria cases reported from June to October for two years, 2019 and 2020 at general hospital Michika, Adamawa State Nigeria. The aim of the study is to document and compare the incidence of malaria within the said period with regard to various age categorization, gender and the parasite density. A total of 2960 cases of malaria was reported, 1535 in 2019 and 1425 in 2020. In the year 2019, 34.7% of the cases were male while 52.64% were female, the remaining was not specified. With respect to age, 10% of the cases were age 5 and below, 12.75 were between 6 and 20, 25.93% were of age 21-50, 14.2% were 50 and above while the rest is no well documented. In relation to parasite density, 28.59% have a parasite density of positive 1, 55.44% have a parasite load of 2 positive, 1.17% has a density of 3 positive while the remaining was not well captured. In the year 2020, 37.54% of the cases were male while 57.12% were female, the rest was not captured. 6.39% of the cases were children of age 5 and below, 14.44% were of age 6-20, 26.88% were of age 21-50, 15.93% were of age 50 and above while the rest is not captured. With regards to parasite density, 19.65% have a parasite load of 1 positive, 53.82% have a parasite load of 2 positive, 0.56% have a parasite load of 3 was not well recorded.
Keyword: Malaria, Density, Gender, Age, Michika.
