Malaria

• What symptoms do people with malaria experience?

  Repeated bouts of fever
• What is the life cycle of the malaria pathogen?

  1. Infected person is bitten by a mosquito
  2. Pathogen enters the mosquito
  3. Mosquito bites another person
  4. Pathogen is transmitted to the new person
• How does the malaria pathogen spread from one person to another?

  Through a mosquito bite
• What do scientists call the mosquito in relation to malaria?

  Vector
• Where do mosquitoes breed?

  In still water
• How can we stop mosquitoes from breeding?

  Drain areas of still water
• What can be sprayed on still water to kill mosquitoes?

  Insecticide
• Why is it difficult to eliminate all mosquitoes?

  It's virtually impossible to kill all
• What is one effective way to prevent mosquito bites at night?

  Sleep under a mosquito net
• What happens if a mosquito net is sprayed with insecticide?

  Mosquitoes that land on it are killed