protist diseases

• a type of protist disease is malaria
• part of the malarial protist's life cycle takes place inside a mosquito
• the mosquitoes are vectors - they pick up the malarial protist when they feed on an infected animal
• every time the mosquito feeds on another animal, it infects it by inserting the protist into the animal's blood vessel
• malaria causes repeating episodes of fever - it can be fatal
• people can be protected from mosquitoes using insecticides and mosquito nets
• you can also remove stagnant water to prevent mosquitoes laying their eggs - larvae