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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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    Haemosporidium vigesimotertianae Lewkowicz, 1897. 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 vivax - Wikipedia

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    Plasmodium vivax is a protozoal parasite and a human pathogen.This parasite is the most frequent and widely distributed cause of recurring malaria. [2] Although it is less virulent than Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest of the five human malaria parasites, P. vivax malaria infections can lead to severe disease and death, often due to splenomegaly (a pathologically enlarged spleen).

  5. EEE, West Nile, malaria: Know the difference between these ...

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    West Nile virus. About 2 in 10 people infected with West Nile virus develop symptoms, which can include fever and swelling of the brain. About 1 in 10 people who develop severe symptoms die. There ...

  6. List of infectious diseases - Wikipedia

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    oral candidiasis, the person's mouth for white patches and irritation. vaginal candidiasis, vaginal itching or soreness, pain during sexual intercourse. Antifungal medications. No. Intestinal disease by Capillaria philippinensis, hepatic disease by Capillaria hepatica and pulmonary disease by Capillaria aerophila.

  7. The West Nile virus is detected in Houston and other parts of ...

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    What to know about dengue fever, West Nile virus and malaria. (Illustration by Kyle McCauley; Photo: Getty Images) (Illustration by Kyle McCauley; Photo: Getty Images)

  8. Zoonosis - Wikipedia

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    Zoonosis. A zoonosis (/ zoʊˈɒnəsɪs, ˌzoʊəˈnoʊsɪs / ⓘ; [1] plural zoonoses) or zoonotic disease is an infectious disease of humans caused by a pathogen (an infectious agent, such as a bacterium, virus, parasite, or prion) that can jump from a non-human (usually a vertebrate) to a human and vice versa. [1][2][3] Major modern diseases ...

  9. 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.