Malaria

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Malaria

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The Malaria disease is caused by parasites that are spread by mosquitoes. The anopheles mosquitoes transmit the parasites from infected persons to healthy ones in their normal process of feeding on human blood. In adults, its common symptoms are headaches, weakness, fever, aches and pains, high body temperature, etc.

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Dept. Nutrition and Dietetics Nutritional Sciences Research Division School of Biomedical & Health Sciences, King's College London, Franklin‐Wilkins Building 150 Stamford Street, SE1 9NH, London, UK
Victor R. Preedy (Prof.) (Prof.)
Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Health Science Center 1295 N. Martin, P.O. Box 245155, 85724-5155, Tucson, AZ
Ronald R. Watson (Prof.) (Prof.)

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(2010). Malaria. In: Preedy, V.R., Watson, R.R. (eds) Handbook of Disease Burdens and Quality of Life Measures. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78665-0_6047

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