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What population groups tend to get malaria?
Malaria infects between 300 and 500 million people every year in Africa, India, southeast Asia, the Middle East, Oceania, and Central and South America. A 2002 report stated that malaria kills 2.7...
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Why is malaria called malaria?
It is derived from the Medieval Italian term mal'aria meaning bad air.
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What is malaria?
Malaria is transmitted to humans form the Anopheles mosquito. Once the disease enters the blood stream the protozoan target red blood cells and cause them to burst simeaultaneously releasing millions...
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What does malaria do?
Some symptoms of malaria include high fever, headache, vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, profuse sweating as body temperature falls and moderate to severe shaking chills.