1. brief summary about malaria
    lester lester Malaysia says:
    April 20, 2010 at 10:17 AM

    I have summarised malaria disease as below, hopefully information below will brings more awareness to public:

    Malaria
    - Caused by parasite carried from person to person by Anopheles mosquito.
    - Anopheles mosquito is active during the night.
    - Symptoms of Malaria are fever, headache, malaise, chills, muscle ache, joint pain, nausea and vomiting. Sweating also usually present. These symptoms can be appeared from 10- 15 days and it may continue up to a month or longer.
    - There are 500 million cases with more than 1 million deaths reported every year by World Health Organization (WHO), most of the deaths are children and pregnant women.
    - Country affected by Malaria is Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East and Europe whereby Africa is the most reported in Malaria disease.

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