Malaria is an infectious disease caused by single-celled microorganisms called plasmodiums.

These microorganisms are parasites that live inside mosquitoes.

In particular, the Anopheles mosquito genus, of which there are about 460 species,

100 of which are known to be transmitters of malaria, though fewer than half of that

number are common transmitters of this parasite.

Because female mosquitoes are the ones that bite, they are the ones that transmit their

plasmodium parasite to other species.

And the Enopheles, Gambi, is one of the most well-known of this mosquito genus,

because it sometimes carries the plasmodium-phalsyperum parasite,

which is the most dangerous and deadly when transmitted to humans through these mosquito's saliva, which is transmitted,

by the way, because mosquito saliva has special properties that keeps blood from clotting.

So they jab their human prey with their proboscis, inject a little saliva into the blood,

which keeps it from clotting so they can drink their fill

before the wound starts sealing itself up. And that is how the parasite is transmitted from

mosquito to human. These little transmitted parasites, once inside a human host, circulate through

the bloodstream, eventually reaching the liver and setting up

shop, reproducing wildly, and in turn, beginning an infection process that does not

manifest any symptoms for somewhere between 8 and 30 days, on average.

After that asymptomatic period, the now multitudinous microorganisms

rupture the liver cells they've been hiding and reproducing in and shoot out toward the

human host's red blood cells, which is the beginning of a new stage of this organism's

life cycle. It generally makes it to this next stage

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