How is Malaria spread?
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Female mosquito injecting her infectious saliva into her next victim.
As mention previously, malaria is spread through a female mosquito's bite. When the female insect bites a human, she inserts her proboscis most likely into a microscopic cut on the humans' body. She will 'feel around' until she finds a sufficient blood vessel. Using her proboscis' two tubes; one for inserting her saliva which contains a chemical to prevent the blood from coagulating and a minor pain killer so the victim is unaware of the pain from the bite, and the other sucks the blood from the wound. The saliva she injects into the tiny laceration may also contain the malaria parasite. When other mosquitoes bite an infected human, that's when the mosquito contracts it itself and passes it onto another human with its next bite. This is how the disease is spread; through the uptake of blood and injection of saliva.
Malaria can also be contracted by blood transfusions (if not screened properly) and intravenously (if person was/is infected).
Malaria can also be contracted by blood transfusions (if not screened properly) and intravenously (if person was/is infected).