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malaria

malarias

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
  1. noun
    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
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    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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