Malaria, a parasitic disease involves high fevers, flu-like symptoms, shaking chills, and anaemia. Malaria is caused by a parasite passed from one human to another through the bite of infected Anopheles mosquitoes. When infected the parasites called ‘sporozoites’ travel through the bloodstream to the liver. The parasites mature and release a form of merozoites, which enter the bloodstream and spread the infection to the red blood cells.
The parasites then multiply inside the cells that break open within 48 to 72 hours spreading the infection. The symptoms take 10 days to 4 weeks after infection. They may be noticed within eight days or after a year of infection. Some of the most evident signs of malaria are chills, shaking chills that range from moderate to severe along with high fever, headache, vomiting and diarrhoea.