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Can you catch malaria from someone who has been infected or straight from a mosquito? |
my sisters chap has possibly got malaria and she has been looking after him over new year is it catching like a virus? malaria is a parasite and can generally only be caught by direct infection via a mosquito. However I suppose in theory at least it could also be caught by needle sharing. No, it's not like catching a virus, plasmodium (the pathogen that causes malaria) requires a vector to be transmitted to other hosts-in this case, a mosquito. Unless an anopheles mosquito bites him and then bites her (but mosquitos usually only bite once a night) she won't catch it. No - you have to be bitten by the mosquito The female mosi. is the carrier, after picking up the virus while collecting blood from an infected person , and then passes it on by biting another person..She will not catch it directly from her partner,,",but" if the infected person is bitten, by a mosi, there is an outside chance that same mosi can pass it on locally to anyone.... |
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