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Causes of Malaria

If a mosquito bites an infected animal before biting a human, the infected organisms from the animal before is transmitted into the humans blood stream through the mosquito's saliva glands, the parasites travel through the blood stream and goes into the host's liver, and after infecting the liver, the parasites travels back into the blood stream and causes the symptoms of malaria. Malaria is caused by four types of parasites, belonging to the plasmodium family. The four types of malaria parasites are The Incubation period can be differnt depending on the type of malaria. The most serious form of malaria's Incubation period is 8-12 days while the rarest kind of malaria's Incubation period can be up to 10 months!
 * **P. falciparum.** - The most common type of malaira, usually seen in Africa, and responsible for most of the malaria deaths.
 * **P. vivax.**- Seen mostly in tropical ares of Asia, symptoms not as deadly as P. falciparum, but can stay in ur liver up to four years.
 * **P. malariae.-** Also seen mostly in africa, but can sometimes not show symptoms and just stay in your bloodstreams for **years.**
 * **P. ovale.-** This is the rarest type of malaria found mostly in Western Africa, it can also stay in your liver until up to 4 years.

Mini Quiz!- Name the four types of malaria parasites.

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