life cycle of malaria-protists

• Protists, or protozoa, are eukaryotes
• Protists are single-celled organisms
• Protists can be parasitic, living on or inside another organism causing harm
• Protists can be animal-like, plant-like, or fungi-like
• Malaria is a well-known illness caused by protists and transmitted by mosquitos
• Sleep under a mosquito net to prevent mosquitoes from biting humans in their sleep
• Sleeping under a mosquito net makes it harder for mosquitoes to reach humans through the net
• Using insecticide can also be effective in killing mosquitoes
• Symptoms of malaria include:

  • fever
  • diarrhoea
  • muscle pains
  • vomiting
• life cycle of malaria:

  • mosquito carries the malaria but the malaria doesn't affect it
  • scientists call the mosquito a vector because it carries the pathogen from one person to another
  • mosquito bites the human passing the malaria onto them, mosquito does this to et the humans blood
  • saliva of the mosquito gets into the human resulting in the human now having it in their blood which then travels down to the liver