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What does it feel like to be infected with malaria?

What does it feel like to be infected with malaria?

You may experience fever and flu-like illness, including shaking chills, headache, muscle aches, and tiredness. Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea may also occur.

Last updated on 28 Sep 2023

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How does malaria spread?

Malaria is spread by the bite of an infected female Anopheles mosquito. Malaria may also be spread by transfusion of blood from infected people or by the use of contaminated needles or syringes.

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Can malaria symptoms come back every year?

Malaria may recur. Some varieties of the malaria parasite, which typically cause milder forms of the disease, can persist for years and cause relapses.

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Is malaria possible in 1 day after a mosquito bite?

For most people, symptoms begin 10 days to after infection, although a person may feel ill as early as 7 to 9 days.

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Is malaria caused by a parasite that lives in mosquitoes?

Malaria is caused by a single-cell parasite called Plasmodium. The parasite infects female mosquitoes when they feed on an infected person's blood. Once in the mosquito's midgut, the parasites multiply and migrate to the salivary glands, ready to infect a new person when the mosquito next bites.

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What is a Malaria (Malarial Parasite) Test?

Malaria parasites can be identified by examining under the microscope a drop of the patient's blood, spread out as a blood smear on a microscope slide.

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PERIPHERAL SMEAR FOR MALARIAL PARASITE (MP)

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