SHANLAX International Journal of Economics shanlax #SINCE1990 http://www.shanlaxjournals.com 26 Economic Burden of Malaria: A National Disease A. Sangamithra Professor, Department of Economics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4761-8150 S. Vishnu Ph.D. Research Scholar, Department of Economics Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9182-4758 Abstract World Health Organization (WHO) stated that Malaria is a life-threatening parasite illness caused by the Genus Plasmodium spreading to human beings through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. Malaria disease is curable and preventable. Unawareness of Malaria in non-endemic areas needs specifc attention and the need for health awareness through the health care workers should be enhanced usual care in both areas. Despite being aware of the government programs and measures for the control of Malaria and the endless major problem of health disease in India and many other nations. The complexness and the panic preponderance of the disease are governed by multiple limitations as technological, functional, and monetary and therefore go on inficting heavy socio-economic losses to people. Keywords: Malaria, Records, Economics, Economic burden, Preventive measures Introduction Malaria is a life-threatening parasite illness caused by the Genus Plasmodium spreading to human beings through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. Malaria disease is curable and preventable (World Health Organization). Malaria symptoms are fever, headache, and body ache, rigor, chill, vomiting, and impossible to direct transmission from a Malaria-infected person to a healthy person. Malaria disease is classifed into four types there are namely Plasmodium malaria, Plasmodium Vivax, Plasmodium Falciparum, and Plasmodium Ovale. Plasmodium Vivax malaria was highly affected in South Asia, particularly in India. In some cases, the parasites because Malaria enters the body but remains dormant for a long time. Infected Anopheles female mosquitoes carry the parasites fow into the bloodstream, once enter the body to travel to the liver and mature. After several days, the adult parasites enter the bloodstream and begin to infect red blood cells. Exacerbation of the disease can lead to jaundice, meningitis, and kidney damage. Malaria: Threatening Disease There were reported 229 million malaria vector cases in 2019 in 87 countries, reduce from 238 million in 2000. Malaria cases (i.e., cases per 1000 population at risk) decreased from 80 in 2000 to 58 in 2015 and 57 in 2019 world widely. Between 2000 to 2015, worldwide malaria cases declined by 27 percent, and between 2015 and 2019 it declined by less than or equal to 2 percent, at a low rate of decline worldwide widely, malaria died have reduced over the period 2000-2019, from 736000 in 2000 to 409000 in 2019. OPEN ACCESS Manuscript ID: ECO-2021-09023675 Volume: 9 Issue: 2 Month: March Year: 2021 P-ISSN: 2319-961X E-ISSN: 2582-0192 Received: 09.01.2021 Accepted: 12.02.2021 Published: 01.03.2021 Citation: Sangamithra, A., and S. Vishnu. “Economic Burden of Malaria: A National Disease.” Shanlax International Journal of Economics, vol. 9, no. 2, 2021, pp. 26-30. DOI: https://doi.org/10.34293/ economics.v9i2.3675 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License