Malaria is a life-threatening mosquito-borne blood disease. The Anopheles mosquito transmits it to humans. The parasites in mosquitoes that spread malaria belong to the Plasmodium genus. Over 100 types of Plasmodium parasite can infect a variety of species.
Malaria is a protozoan disease and the microbe reaches human body through mosquito bite.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Five species of plasmodium protozoan are found to cause malaria each causing disease with varying severity. Plasmodium falciparum species causes the most severe form of malaria. Malaria is spread by female Anopheles mosquitoes.
The typical symptoms of malaria are fever, headache, vomiting etc. In severe cases it causes death. The pathogen reaches the blood of healthy individual through the bite of Anopheles mosquito carrying the infected person’s blood.
