Malaria

Question 1

What is malaria?

Answer 1

• Communicable disease.
• Spread by a pathogen.
• ## Malaria pathogen is an example of a protists.

Question 2

What are the symptoms of malaria?

Answer 2

• Repeated bouts of fever.

- Malaria can be fatal.

Question 3

What is the cycle of malaria?

Answer 3

• Person infected by malaria.
• Infected person is bitten by a mosquito and malaria pathogen passes into mosquito.
• ## Mosquito bites a different person and passes the malaria pathogen to them.

Question 4

What is a mosquito?

Answer 4

• Vector.
• ## Carries the pathogen from one person to another.

Question 5

How do we stop malaria?

Answer 5

• Stop the vector from breeding.
• Mosuitos breed in still water so to stop them from breeding; Find areas of water and drain them
• Spray areas of still water with insecticide.
• Prevent mosquitos biting humans.
• ## Sleep under a mosquito net as they cannot pass through.