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What diseases is caused by a mosquito typhoid red eye malaria influenza?

malaria


Is malaria is an airborne disease?

no, malaria is caused by an infected mosquito biting a human or animal


What is the name of female mosquito which causes malaria?

Sir Ronald Ross, who was born in India and British by nationality, discovered that female anopheles mosquito causes malaria. He called that mosquito as a mosquito with dappled wings, as he was not a zoologist.


What is malaria caused by that is transferred to humans by the bite of an infected mosquito?

the female mosquito transfer malaria by its saliva into blood of human , which causes break down of RBCs


What organism serves as a vector for malaria?

Malaria is not caused by an organism it is carried (virus) be the femail anopheles's mosquito


Is malaria a parasite?

Malaria is called as parasitic disease which is caused due to the infection or Protozoan known as PLASMODIUM and is a parasite or it complete its life cycle on two hosts female anaphilis (mosquito) and man


Is malaria caused by a parasitic worm?

Malaria is transmitted through Mosquitoes. The saliva of the female anopheles mosquito contains a protozoa that infects the humans and animals with the malaria parasite.


What another term malaria is caused transferred to humans by the bite of in infected mosquito?

parasite


Is malaria a communicable disease?

malaria is a communicable disease caused by mosquito bites. It is most common in Africa, although it is also present in Asia and Latin America.


How does a mosquito act as a vector for malaria parasites?

Malaria is transmitted by the bite of an infected female Anopheles mosquito. This bite introduces the parasites from the mosquito's saliva into a person's blood. The parasites then travel to the liver where they mature and reproduce.


What is malaria actually caused by?

Malaria is the infectious disease caused by the microorganism Plasmodium, a parasitic protozoan, that is carried in the saliva of the female Anopheles mosquito. When bitten by this mosquito, the microorganism is injected into the victim, where they travel via the circulatory system to the liver where they mature and reproduce.


What causes malaria and how the disease is spread?

Malaria is caused by four species from the genus Plasmodium. Plasmodium is a protozoa. This protozoa forms male and female gametes in the blood of the patient of malaria. Which are sucked by female anopheles mosquito. The parasite complete the sexual cycle in the body of mosquito. This mosquito injects the sporozoites in the body of next victims to give them malaria.