How to Prevent Malaria from Spreading?
Malaria is a severe parasitic infection carried and spread by infected mosquitos, which is fatal to humans. You might have the disease if you are experiencing fever and flu-like symptoms such as chills, headache, fatigue, nausea and vomiting. Seek immediate medical help to get malaria treatment. But how can one get malaria? First, malaria is not contagious from one person to another, like the flu or sexually transmitted diseases. Instead, it spreads when an infected female anopheles mosquito feeds on someone with malaria and then moves on to another individual. The transmission occurs when a small amount of blood containing microscopic malaria parasites gets mixed with the mosquito's saliva and injected into another person from which the mosquito is currently feeding. Since malaria is in an individual's RBC or red blood cells, it can spread through blood transfusion, organ transplant, or sharing needles and syringes. Who is at risk? People living in countr...