Malaria

• Malaria

  • It is a communicable disease, meaning it is spread by a pathogen
  • The malaria pathogen is an example of a protist
• Life cycle of malaria pathogen

  1. Infected person is bitten by a mosquito

  2. Malaria pathogen passes into the mosquito

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

  The mosquito that carries the malaria pathogen from one person to another
• Preventing the spread of malaria

  1. Stop the mosquito vector from breeding by draining areas of still water

  2. Spray areas of still water with insecticide to kill mosquitoes

  3. Prevent mosquitoes from biting humans by using mosquito nets
• It is virtually impossible to kill all mosquitoes
• Spraying mosquito nets with insecticide kills any mosquitoes that land on them