Malaria is an infectious disease caused by a protozoan parasite Plasmodium and spreads through the bite of an insect vector-the female Anopheles mosquito which feeds on human blood.
The Main symptoms of malaria include headache, nausea, muscular pain and high fever.
The only way to prevent malaria is to take precautions against mosquito bites and avoid stagnation of water in surrounding.
This disease can be controlled by a drug named quinine, which is extracted from the bark of the Cinchona tree, and is used to treat a person suffering from malaria.