Malaria

• Causative agent is Plasmodia
• Type of causative agent is a Parasite
• Sypmtoms: Fever, shivering, joint pain, vomiting, anemia, retinal damage, and convulsions.
• Treatment: (depending on the severity) Low: Oral drugs, High: Parenteral administration of antimalarial drugs
• Prevention include: prophylactic drugs, mosquito eradication and the prevention of mosquito bites.
• Lifecycle: Female mosquitos of the Anopheles genus are secondary hosts and transmission vectors, A mosquito becomes infected when it takes a blood meal from an infected human, A transmission occurs referred to as anterior station transfer, then when the bite happens the mosquito injects sporozoites into the human.