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Description and Symptoms of Malaria
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Tags: Malaria, P. vivax malaria, P. ovale, paroxysms, P. falciparum Malaria
| | Malaria typically produces a string of recurrent attacks, or paroxysms, each of which has three stages—chills, followed by fever, and then sweating. |
| | Along with chills, the person is likely to have headache, nausea, and vomiting. |
| | Within an hour or two, the person’s temperature rises, and the skin feels hot and dry. Then, as the body temperature falls, a drenching sweat begins. The person, feeling tired and weak, is likely to fall asleep. |
| | The symptoms first appear some 10 to 16 days after the infectious mosquito bite and coincide with the bursting of infected red blood cells. |
| | When many red blood cells are infected and break at the same time, malaria attacks can recur at regular time periods—every 2 days for P. vivax malaria and P. ovale, and every 3 days for P. malariae. |
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