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  2. Malaria - Wikipedia

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    Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates. [6][7][3] Human malaria causes symptoms that typically include fever, fatigue, vomiting, and headaches. [1][8] In severe cases, it can cause jaundice, seizures, coma, or death. [1][9] Symptoms usually begin 10 to 15 days after being bitten by an infected Anopheles mosquito ...

  3. Plasmodium falciparum - Wikipedia

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    Plasmodium falciparum. Plasmodium falciparum is a unicellular protozoan parasite of humans, and the deadliest species of Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans. [2] The parasite is transmitted through the bite of a female Anopheles mosquito and causes the disease's most dangerous form, falciparum malaria.

  4. Plasmodium malariae - Wikipedia

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    Plasmodium rodhaini Brumpt, 1939. Plasmodium malariae is a parasitic protozoan that causes malaria in humans. It is one of several species of Plasmodium parasites that infect other organisms as pathogens, also including Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax, responsible for most malarial infection.

  5. Plasmodium - Wikipedia

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    Plasmodium is a genus of unicellular eukaryotes that are obligate parasites of vertebrates and insects. The life cycles of Plasmodium species involve development in a blood-feeding insect host which then injects parasites into a vertebrate host during a blood meal. Parasites grow within a vertebrate body tissue (often the liver) before entering ...

  6. Diddy is 'fighting for his life' amid sex trafficking charges ...

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    The maximum penalty for a federal sex trafficking charge is life in prison and a $250,000 fine. "(Prosecutors are) going to want a long sentence for Sean Combs," Galluzzo says.

  7. History of malaria - Wikipedia

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    Malaria became widely recognized in ancient Greece by the 4th century BC and is implicated in the decline of many city-state populations. The term μίασμα (Greek for miasma: "stain" or "pollution") was coined by Hippocrates of Kos who used it to describe dangerous fumes from the ground that are transported by winds and can cause serious illnesses.

  8. How Long Could Diddy Spend in Prison? Lawyer Discusses ... - AOL

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    “Most defendants facing serious federal charges negotiate a plea deal rather than risking a harsher sentence after trial. He is likely to do the same,” the lawyer told Us. “Of course, much ...

  9. Stateville Penitentiary Malaria Study - Wikipedia

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    Stateville Penitentiary Malaria Study. The Stateville Penitentiary malaria study was a controlled but ethically questionable study of the effects of malaria on prisoners of Stateville Penitentiary near Joliet, Illinois, in the 1940s, conducted by the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago in conjunction with the United States Army ...