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Malaria is an infectious parasitic disease of
the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes, marked
by periodic fever and an enlarged spleen.
When a female mosquito of the Anopheles genus
bites a human who has malaria, it takes in
with the human blood one of four malaria
protozoa of the genus Plasmodium. This
matures within the insect and is then
transferred when the mosquito bites a new
victim. Malaria affects some 267 million
people in 103 countries, claiming more than a
million lives a year.
Subject by: George Sweeney