Every twelfth child that died in 2017, died because of malaria. It is one of the leading causes of child mortality. The annual death toll is certainly in the hundreds of thousands, but estimates differ between different global health organizations: The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 558,000 people died because of malaria in 2019 the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) puts this estimate at 643,000. Plasmodium falciparum is by far the most lethal in humans and responsible for most deaths. The parasites are single-celled microorganisms of the Plasmodium group. In the worst cases malaria leads to coma and death. ![]() There the parasite causes a high fever that involves shaking chills and pain. The bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito transmits a parasite that enters the victim’s blood system and travels into the person’s liver where the parasite reproduces. ![]() Malaria is a disease that is transmitted from person to person by infected mosquitoes.
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