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Description 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.

Malaria parasites are microscopic creatures that multiply in the cells of the human body, causing a fever. In a young child, malaria can be fatal. In the adults, it manifests itself as a deliberating disease, sapping the capacity for effort; it therefore has serious effects on the economy of any country it ravages. The malaria infection can be passed on from a malaria sufferer to a healthy in only one way: by the bite of certain species of anopheles mosquitoes.

Asset date 01/01/1955

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