Disease class: Chromistal infections
This is a notifiable disease. This means that all diagnosed cases must be reported to the national Public Health services.
Pathogen :
Epidemiology
- According to the WHO: In 2017, there were an estimated 219 million cases of malaria in 90 countries. This was 2.9% of the world population that year.
Symptoms
- Fever
Investigations
- Blood film : visible parasites
- Thin and thick blood smears
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