Malaria Background
Malaria is a very serious disease that can cause severe illness and even death. There are a range of symptoms that include fever, headache and vomiting. These are generally caused by the blood stage parasites (WHO 2012). An infection starts after a person is bitten by a female Anopheles mosquito. Once this happens the malaria bacteria enters the blood stream and travels to the liver. Here they grow and reproduce, and eventually infect the red blood cells. In the red blood cells, the bacteria multiply until they lyse the cell, releasing daughter parasites which infect other red blood cells and continue the process.