Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that kills over a million people each year. Over the last two decades, historical progress in malaria treatment and prevention efforts has helped save more than seven million lives and prevent over a billion malaria cases. Despite all these efforts, malaria is still prevalent in over 100 countries worldwide, putting half of the world’s population at risk of infection. World Malaria Day is observed on April 25th every year to raise awareness about the need for the prevention, control, and elimination of malaria. Etiology Malaria is a potentially fatal disease caused by Plasmodium parasites that are transmitted to humans through the infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. ·Four Plasmodium species, namely P.
falciparum , P. vivax, P. malariae, and P. ovale , commonly infect humans. P. knowlesi , a Plasmodium species that primarily infects non-human…
