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Malaria

A thin-film Giemsa stained micrograph of ring-forms, and gametocytes of Plasmodium falciparum.

Brief Overview
• Malaria is one of the most common infectious diseases and an enormous public-health problem.
• Malaria is a vector-borne infectious disease that is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions
• It infects between 300 and 500 million people every year and causes between one and three million deaths annually, mostly among young children in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• The disease is caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodium.
• The most serious forms of the disease are caused by Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax, but other related species can also infect humans.
• This group of human-pathogenic Plasmodium species is usually referred to as malaria parasites.
• Malaria is not just a disease commonly associated with poverty, but is also a cause of poverty and thus a major hindrance to economic development.
• This sometimes......

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