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How is malaria transmitted to humans? What is the role of mosquitoes in the transmission?

The section entitled “The parasite and transmission of the disease” explains how the Plasmodium gets into human blood and why it causes fever and other symptoms of malaria bout.

Plasmodium falciparum can cause severe malaria

Plasmodia are microscopic parasites that cause malaria. Four species of the parasite can produce the disease in humans: Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium ovale and Plasmodium malariae.

The plasmodium is transmitted by female anopheles bites

The vector of malaria is a mosquito called Anopheles. Only the female bites humans because its eggs depend on blood for nourishment.

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