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malaria

Malaria is an infectious disease that spreads through mosquitoes. If you're traveling in a warm-climate area in the tropics, you might be in danger of contracting malaria. Pack your Deep Woods OFF!.

Malaria's symptoms include high fevers, chills, flu-like symptoms, and anemia. Malaria is found in warmer-climate places like the tropics and subtropics. When people travel on vacation to these places, they are in danger of contracting the disease. While Malaria is treatable, more than a million people die of the disease each year.

DEFINITIONS OF: malaria

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n an infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever

Types:
blackwater fever
severe and often fatal malaria characterized by kidney damage resulting in dark urine
jungle fever
severe form of malaria occurring in tropical regions
Type of:
protozoal infection
any infection caused by a protozoan
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