Introduction
A Plasmodium parasite
Malaria is an infectious blood disease that is transmitted into humans by the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito. It usually takes around 9 to 14 days for the disease to take its effect. Symptoms include fever, headache, vomiting, muscle pain, and diarrhea. Approximately one million people die from malaria each year. 90% of the deaths occur in Sub-Saharan Africa, 70% of the deaths occur in children under the age of five. Malaria can be cured if treated at an early stage with the appropriate drugs, if not the infection will lead to coma, life-threatening anemia, which then leads to death.
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