Malaria

• The malaria pathogen is an example of a protits
• Malaria is a serious disease- People with malaria experience repeated short periods of fever.
• Malaria can be fatal.
• First, infected person is bitten by mosquito. The malaria pathogen passes into the mosquito

  
• Mosquito bites a different person and passes the malaria pathogen to them

  
• Scientists call the mosquito a 'vector'. This is because it carries the pathogen from one person to another
• One way to prevent the spread of malaria is by stopping the vector (mosquito) from breeding - mosquitos breed in still water so to stop them from breeding we need to find areas of still water and drain them or spray insecticide which kills mosquito
• Another way to stop the spread of malaria is to prevent mosquito from biting any human, this is by the use of insecticide on mosquito bed nets ( mosquito wont be able to get inside the net while person is sleeping) or walls to kill any mosquitos that land there