Protist disease

Cards (4)

  • Protists
    • Some are parasitic, meaning they use humans and animals as hosts
  • Malaria symptoms:
    • fever
    • shaking
  • Malaria is spread by female mosquito (vector), when the mosquito punctures the skin to feed on blood the protist enters the bloodstream via their saliva
  • Malaria is caused by protist pathogens enter the red blood cells and damage them