Pneumonia Symptoms and Causes
malaria is a bacterial disease :: Article Creator Deadly Diseases The female Anopheles mosquito may well be the most dangerous creature on Earth. When she lands on human skin, she sucks up blood through her needle-shaped mouth and injects saliva into the wound. If this saliva contains Plasmodia parasites, the victims will soon suffer severe fever, violent shivering, and profuse sweating — the telltale symptoms of malaria. "Malaria" is a misnomer. Drawn from the Italian mala aria, or "bad air," the name reflects the historical belief that the disease is caused by miasmas, or noxious exhalations from rotting matter or stagnant water. In 1889, a tiny parasite was revealed as the disease-causing agent, and eight years later, the mosquito was identified as the parasite-carrying agent. When a mosquito carrying malaria bites her victim, she injects parasites into the bloodstream, where they migrate to the liver and other organs an...