العلوم الطبيعية في القرآن الكريم

Quran has deep relation with science. For Example Quran teaches us about the creation of the world, human being, all the living and nonliving things and its advantages and disadvantages. Quran also tells us about the different diseases and its cure. Now in the modern time the scientist are following the Quran for their scientific research. There are 13 hundred verses in Quran belongs to human thoughts. Just like this there are different explanation about the human’s health and food and these things are related to science. The Quran has presented knowledge about mountains, sea, water, air environment etc.

Prevalenceof Malaria in the Local Populationof Swat Valley, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

The present study was carried out in District Swat for a period of 7 months from January to July, 2017. For the current study the blood samples were collected from patients visiting the hospital, malaria diagnostic labs and District Head Quarter Hospital Laboratory showing symptoms for malaria disease belonging to all age groups and recommended for blood test for the diagnosis of malaria disease by the physician in the hospitals of Swat. The information (name, gender, age and residence) were gathered on a printed proforma from the local patients. About 1050 patients were examined for this study and malaria was detected through microscopy of thick and thin blood smears and rapid diagnostic test of which 118 were found to be infected with malaria parasite showing about 11.24% prevalence of malaria. Data was also collected from other labs of District Swat which makes it a total of 9255 patients studied in the current among which 932 patients were found positive for malaria parasite in the whole district showing a prevalence rate of 10.07%. Out of the total 932 infected blood samples 558 of them were male (59.87%) while 374 were female (40.13%). The collective data for District Swat showed majority of the infected patients belonged to age group 1-10 years (41.42%). The least infected age groups were aged above 60 years (0.86%). Malaria parasite was found highest in the months of July (39.48%) i.e. summer season and lowest in the month of February (2.25%) i.e. winter months. Patients tested for malaria parasite belonged to the following seven (7) Tehsils wherein the rate of positive infected cases in these 7 Tehsils in descending order was: Barikot > Kabal > Babuzai > Matta > Khwazakhela> Charbagh> Bahrain. It is concluded from this study that P.vivax is the prevalent malaria causing parasite in district Swat. No case of P.falciparum was recorded. Furthermore male are infected more than female, and malaria is common in children, teenagers and youth of the area. Moreover, it is of great importance that campaigns regarding awareness of malaria are run regularly in the district and most importantly malaria control programme should be regularly financed. Though these precautionary procedures or administrating suitable therapeutic options cannot be regarded as sufficient to control, let alone eradicate malaria. In order to maintain low prevalence of malaria and avoid any mortality it is important to bring a change in the social and personal behavior of individuals which might be difficult but is of prime importance at the same time. Keeping these points in notice, further study is recommended on effectively applied interventions, concentrating majorly on behavioral adaptations and approaches of assessing their efficiency must be expanded.