What are the symptoms of malaria?

Malaria:

1. Malaria is caused by a protozoan called a malarial parasite.
2. It spreads by the bite of the female Anopheles mosquito which carries the malarial parasite in its salivary glands. When a mosquito bites a healthy person, the malarial parasites get transferred to the blood of a healthy person and cause malaria.
3. Symptoms include-
   1. The person gets a sudden high fever with chills and sweating.
   2. The fever subsides after some time and comes again after a gap of 24 or 48 hours.
   3. The person goes through the cold stage, hot stage, and sweating stage.
   4. A person becomes weak and anemic.