Malaria

• Malaria


  A very common disease in certain parts of the world that causes over 400,000 deaths every year
• 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 vector (mosquito) 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 sleeping under a mosquito net, especially one sprayed with insecticide
• It is virtually impossible to kill all mosquitoes