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malaria
vr.tr.malaria · thing-q12156
Let an agent give general, non-diagnostic information about malaria, stress urgent care for fever after travel, and route people to health professionals and official travel advice.
Thing Registry Activities and processes ACT.PRC
Bundle → Layer → Finding → QuestionsClassifiersWhat it isWhy it existsDistinguishing featuresWhat robots and AI may and may not doMoral aspectsOwnersLinks to other meta-modelsIdentity and identifiersDirect propertiesRecognitionCapabilities and actionsHazards and failure modesStandards and interfacesContext of useSources
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Urgent Fever after travel.
Fever
Seek care.
Fever
Urgent testing.
- Does the person have fever during or after travel to a malaria area and need urgent testing? boundary
- Where can they be seen today? action
Severe signs
Emergency.
Severe
Severe signs.
- Are there signs such as confusion, breathing difficulty or collapse that need emergency services? boundary
- Who should be called? action
Prevention Before travel.
Advice
Travel clinic.
Advice
Pre-travel advice.
- Has a health professional advised on prevention for this trip? boundary
- Where is official travel health guidance? provenance
Bites
Avoiding mosquitoes.
Bites
Bite prevention.
- Which bite-prevention measures do official sources recommend? provenance
- Are nets and repellents available? action
Care Diagnosis and treatment.
Diagnosis
Blood tests.
Diagnosis
Diagnosis.
- How is malaria diagnosed? definition
- How quickly should testing happen? boundary
Treatment
Guidelines.
Treatment
Treatment.
- What do WHO guidelines say about treatment, in general terms? provenance
- Who prescribes it? boundary
Global Burden and control.
Burden
Statistics.
Burden
Global burden.
- How many cases and deaths does the WHO report? measurement
- For which year? provenance
Control
Programmes.
Control
Control programmes.
- Which control and vaccine programmes exist? provenance
- Where are they deployed? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Activities and processes
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- ACT
- Domain
- ACT.PRC
- Other names and narrower kinds
- cerebral malaria, Airport malaria, Tropical splenomegaly syndrome, pregnancy-associated malaria, tropical malaria, Plasmodium ovale malaria, Plasmodium vivax malaria, Plasmodium falciparum malaria, Quartan fever, mixed malaria, Congenital malaria, blackwater fever
What it is Filled
A mosquito-borne infectious disease caused by Plasmodium parasites, transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes, causing fever and potentially severe illness; it is preventable and treatable, and is a medical emergency when severe.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent give general, non-diagnostic information about malaria, stress urgent care for fever after travel, and route people to health professionals and official travel advice.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Parasitic, mosquito-borne
- Endemic in many tropical regions
- Preventable and treatable
- Severe malaria is an emergency
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Diagnose malaria or advise treatment instead of a clinician or test.
- Recommend unproven or counterfeit antimalarial medicines.
- Tell a person with fever after travel to a malaria area to wait it out.
- Disclose a person's infection status without consent.
Only with a human decision
- Treatment and prevention decisions for a specific person.
May
- Explain malaria, its prevention and its symptoms from public health sources.
- Point travellers to official advice on prevention for their destination.
Moral aspects Filled
- Malaria kills hundreds of thousands of people a year, mostly young children in poor regions.
- Fake antimalarials cost lives and drive drug resistance.
Who is affected
- People in malaria-endemic areas
- Children under five
- Travellers
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns a disease; health authorities lead control and surveillance.
Master systems
- National disease surveillance systems
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q2083837 - registry parent class
- Q353172 - registry parent class
- Q506680 - registry parent class
related
- vector-borne and parasitic disease - category
- Plasmodium - parasite
- Anopheles mosquito - vector
- WHO - authority
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.malaria
- Wikidata: Q12156 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12156)
- ICD-11: 1F40-1F4Z malaria
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Caused by Plasmodium species
- Transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes
- Diagnosed by blood tests
- Not visible; symptoms include fever, chills, headache and aches, sometimes weeks after exposure.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- seek urgent testing for fever during or after travel to malaria areas
- get pre-travel advice from a health professional
- prevent mosquito bites
- follow official malaria maps
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Delaying care for fever after travel
- Self-treatment without testing
- Diagnosis or dosing advice by an agent
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- WHO guidelines for malaria
- National travel health guidance
Context of use required Filled
- A major global health problem addressed by prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
- falciparum malaria
- vivax malaria
- ovale and malariae malaria
- knowlesi malaria
- severe and cerebral malaria
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q12156: malaria - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Malaria - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should parasite species be separate entries?
- How should risk maps be linked?
- How should travel advice be localised?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q12156/spec.json