{"id":1731,"date":"2011-09-26T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malaria.com\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2011-09-26T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T20:35:00","slug":"what-does-malaria-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malaria.epicenter.com\/?p=1731","title":{"rendered":"What does malaria cause?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>QUESTION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What does malaria cause?<\/p>\n<p><strong>ANSWER:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Malaria is a disease. It is caused by tiny single-celled parasites called <em>Plasmodium, <\/em>which are transmitted through the bite of infected <em>Anopheles<\/em> mosquitoes. There are many symptoms that occur as a result of infection with malaria, namely fever, chills, headaches and nausea, among others. Malaria can be a very serious disease, especially if not treated promptly, and so when spending time in malaria-infection areas (such as many areas of low to moderate elevation in the tropics and sub-tropics) precautions should be taken to avoid mosquito bites and thus infection. If a person finds\u00a0themselves suffering from some of the above symptoms after being in a malaria transmission region, it is crucially important they get diagnosed straight away; if they do indeed have malaria, then they can be given treatment to facilitate a quick and safe recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUESTION: What does malaria cause? ANSWER: Malaria is a disease. It is caused by tiny single-celled parasites called Plasmodium, which are transmitted through the bite of infected Anopheles mosquitoes. There are many symptoms that occur as a result of infection with malaria, namely fever, chills, headaches and nausea, among others. Malaria can be a very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[135,1260,1270,1317,1489,1711,2189],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-questions","tag-anopheles","tag-malaria-causes","tag-malaria-diagnosis","tag-malaria-prevention","tag-mosquitoes","tag-plasmodium","tag-treatment","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaria.epicenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaria.epicenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaria.epicenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaria.epicenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaria.epicenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/malaria.epicenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaria.epicenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaria.epicenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaria.epicenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}