The genus Plasmodium causes malaria, one of the greatest scourges of humans. Malaria has probably caused more human deaths than any other infectious disease; even today it is estimated to kill a million people a year in the sub-Saharan Africa.
The organism is transmitted from human to human through the bite of mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles.
__________________
I will love the sun for it warms my bones;yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit.
|