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Causes of Malaria Every year, 350 to 500 million people are infected by malaria, and up to one million of them dies. Out of 80 million of the travelers that travel to areas with a high malaria risk, 30,000 will contract the disease and yet, many choose to ignor the need of anti-malarial medication. Unlike many other diseases, malaria cannot be spread by human contact, instead, when a mosquito bites a person with blood that is infected with the parasite, the next person it bites would have a high chance of getting malaria. The main carriers of the malaria parasites are invading armies, explorers, immigrants, traders, refugees, colonists, and settlers. The parastites that are transmitted by mosquito bites are called plasmodium protozoan.

There are four types of plasmodium, plasmodium malariae, plasmodium ovale, plasmodium vivax, and plasmodium falciparum.Plasmodium malariae is a favorable form that occurs everywhere, but only rarely. Plasmodium ovale can be found mostly in Africa. Plasmodium vivax is persistent but not life-threatening and common in the Indian subcontinent, and plasmodium falciparum is the most lethal of the four. It can also be called malignant malaria and is common in sub-Saharan Africa, New Guinea, the Amazon basin and increasingly in the Indian subcontinent.

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 * Something to think about:** What are the differences between plasmodium malariae, plasmodium ovale, plasmodium vivax, and plasmodium falciparum?