Malaria and the skin (For professionals)

Malaria is a common infection caused by a unicellular organism called a Protist. It is transmitted by a mosquito called Anopheles. After a period of between two weeks and several months (occasionally years) spent in the liver, the malaria parasites multiply within red blood cells, causing symptoms that appear cyclically. Symptoms include fever, and headache. […]

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