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Mention the symptoms and control measures of malaria.


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Malaria: It is an infectious disease caused by protozoan Plasmodium sp. which transmits to a healthy person by the bite of a female Anopheles mosquito.

Symptoms:

  1. Fever
  2. Headache
  3. Feeling cold and shivers
  4. Muscular pain
  5. Weakness
  6. Anemia

Control measures :

  1. Make proper arrangements to prevent the mosquitoes from entering the home.
  2. Use of mosquito repellents.
  3. Spraying of insecticides to kill mosquitoes.

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