To have a good knowledge of malaria it is necessary to know the life history of the parasite that causes malaria. The female anopheles mosquito plays an important role in spreading the diseased. When a healthy female anopheles mosquito bites a person infected with malaria. It sucks up blood along with plasmodium, the malarial parasite. The parasite completes a part of its life-cycle inside mosquito finally reaching to salivary glands. When this infected mosquito bites a healthy person the plasmodium enter into the blood along with saliva. The parasites reach the liver where they remain and grow for two weeks. Later they return to the blood stream and enter into red blood cells. There they multiply in number and finally rupture out the wall making themselves free in blood stream. The phenomenon repeats continuously. As a result the patient develops fever wit a gap a day. If treatment is not started on time, the patient can die.
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