malaria is caused by parasite namely plasmodium falciparum, plasmadium vivax, plasmodium ovale, plasmodium malariae etc. malaria is a fatal disease , but we can easly prevent malaria. malaria is a common disease among world wide. every year about 500 million cases of malaria reported and about 1 million people die due to malaria.

malaria is commonly seen in the warmer countries, that is the countries lieing in tropical regions.
this is due to the fact that the female anopheles mosquito can easily survive in this climatic situations. the females anopheles acts as a vector to the malaria parasite.the parasite complete its growth cycle inside the female anopheles before transmitting into the human body. the malarial worm enter into the human body through mosquito bite, the fact is that only female anopheles mosqito can spread malaria. malaria worm cannot transmitted from person to person through the infections like cold or flu etc.