also can it be contracted through kissing?
2007-10-02 04:55:41 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ STDs
A bite from a mosquito that is infected with certain parasites causes malaria. In extremely rare cases, people can get this disease if they come into contact with infected blood, or an unborn baby may get it from it's mother. You cannot get malaria by being near a person who has the disease. You can read more here
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/malaria/DS00475
2007-10-02 05:02:02 · answer #1 · answered by Nurse Annie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Usually, people get malaria by being bitten by an infected female Anopheles mosquito. Only Anopheles mosquitoes can transmit malaria and they must have been infected through a previous blood meal taken on an infected person.
Because the malaria parasite is found in red blood cells, malaria can also be transmitted through blood transfusion, organ transplant, or the shared use of needles or syringes contaminated with blood. Malaria may also be transmitted from a mother to her fetus before or during delivery ("congenital" malaria).
Malaria is not transmitted from person to person like a cold or the flu. You cannot get malaria from casual contact with malaria-infected people.
Check out the link below for more information about malaria:
http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/faq.htm
2007-10-02 17:17:07 · answer #2 · answered by Alli 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Malaria is an infection caused by a parasite that is spread by mosquitos.
read on... (from http://www.dhpe.org/infect/Malaria.html
How is malaria spread?
A person gets malaria from the bite of an infected female mosquito. The mosquito bite injects young forms of the malaria parasite into the person's blood. The parasites travel through the person's bloodstream to the liver, where they grow to their next stage of development. In 6 to 9 days, the parasites leave the liver and enter the bloodstream again. They invade the red blood cells, finish growing, and begin to multiply quickly. The number of parasites increases until the red blood cells burst, releasing thousands of parasites into the person's bloodstream. The parasites attack other red blood cells, and the cycle of infection continues, causing the common signs and symptoms of malaria.
When a non-infected mosquito bites an infected person, the mosquito sucks up parasites from the person's blood. The mosquito is then infected with the malaria parasites. The parasites go through several stages of growth in the mosquito. When the mosquito bites someone else, that person will become infected with malaria parasites, and the cycle will begin again.
Malaria parasites can also be transmitted by transfusion of blood from an infected person or by the use of needles or syringes contaminated with the blood of an infected person.
2007-10-02 05:01:03 · answer #3 · answered by Bogey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Yes. It's plausible. Mosquitoes DO carry diseases like malaria. It would take more than a single mosquito bite to transmit an STD in most cases, but if one was to be bitten repeatedly by multiple bed bugs carrying such a disease I would imagine it's likely that the disease would be transmitted.
2016-04-05 02:16:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋