Malaria: All you need to know Malaria is a vector-borne infection that is caused by the parasites of plasmodium genus, which are protozoa.  The vector for malaria is the female Anopheles mosquito. This mosquito gets infected with the Plasmodium parasite and in turn when it feeds on human blood by biting, it transmits the infection to the humans. With even a very little amount of its blood being injected into the humans while it has blood-meals, the female anopheles mosquito is capable of transmitting too many microbes into the human's blood. Malaria can be a serious parasite infection, sometimes it can cause some severe life-threatening complications.  It is a common disease with endemic outbreaks where there are more mosquitoes and lack of sanitation.  It is a disease that is characterised by high grade fever with chills and causes general weakness of the body.  It can be diagnosed and treated but the recurrence of the disease is possible to happen.  Ther...