Malaria: All - MayoClinic.com
Malaria - Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes, treatment, prevention of this infectious disease. Malaria is an infectious disease caused by a parasite that's transmitted by mosquitoes. The illness results in recurrent attacks of chills ... [... more]
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Glossary / CDC Malaria
A reduction in the number of circulating red blood cells or in the quantity of hemoglobin. A genus of mosquito, some species of which can transmit human malaria. Anthropophilic mosquitoes are mosquitoes that prefer to take blood meals on ... [... more]
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Countries with Malaria Risk
About 800 U.S. travelers are diagnosed with malaria each year. Cautionary Tales About Travelers' Ordeals with Severe Malaria However, all travelers to countries with malaria risk may get this potentially deadly disease. Asia (including the Indian ... [... more]
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Malaria in the United States
Of the 1,337 malaria cases reported for 2002 in the United States, all but five were imported, i.e., acquired in malaria-endemic countries. Between 1957 and 2003, in the United States, 63 outbreaks of locally transmitted mosquito-borne malaria ... [... more]
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How People Get Malaria (Transmission)
Malaria is a serious and sometimes fatal disease caused by a parasite that commonly infects a certain type of mosquito which feeds on humans. People who get malaria are typically very sick with high fevers, shaking chills, and flu-like illness. ... [... more]
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How to Prevent Malaria
Information about malaria from the American Academy of Family Physicians. Malaria is an infection of a part of the blood call the red blood cells. It is spread by mosquitoes that carry a parasite that causes malaria. If this mosquito bites you, ... [... more]
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Malaria, NIAID, NIH
View an illustration about the life cycle of the malaria parasite. Volunteer for NIAID-funded clinical studies related to malaria on ClinicalTrials.gov. A child dies of malaria every 30 seconds. Finding effective ways to control and eventually ... [... more]
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Play the Mosquito Game
Malaria is one of the world's most common diseases, caused by a parasite that is transmitted to humans by a female mosquito's bite. The discovery of this parasite in mosquitoes earned the British scientist Ronald Ross the Nobel Prize in ... [... more]
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National Institutes of Health (NIH) - Home Page
Official website of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIH is one of the world's foremost medical research centers. An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH is the Federal focal point for health research. The ... [... more]
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