A parasite is an organism that depends on another organism, known as a host, for food and shelter. For my paper I have chosen to research Malaria. Malaria is an infectious disease that is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions. It infects between 300 and 500 million people every year and causes between one and three million deaths annually, mostly among young children in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Malaria is one of the most common infectious diseases and an enormous public-health problem. The disease is caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodium. The most serious forms of the disease are caused by Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax, but other related species (Plasmodium ovale and Plasmodium malariae) can also infect humans. These groups of human-pathogenic Plasmodium species are usually referred to collectively as malaria parasites.
Malaria parasites are transmitted by female Anopheles mosquitoes. Plasmodium multiplies within the red blood cells, causing......
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