{"id":3686,"date":"2012-02-10T20:30:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T04:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malaria.com\/?p=3686"},"modified":"2012-02-10T20:30:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T04:30:41","slug":"malaria-symptoms-headache-chills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malaria.epicenter.com\/?p=3686","title":{"rendered":"Headache and Chills with Malaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>QUESTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Could a person be infected by malaria without\u00a0symptoms of headache and chills?<\/p>\n<p><strong>ANSWER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Malaria symptoms vary considerably, depending on the type of malaria, the severity of the infection and the patient&#8217;s natural immunity. It is certainly possible for a patient to have malaria without experiencing headache and chills; some people infected with certain forms of malaria, such as <em>Plasmodium malariae<\/em>, may not even experience severe fever and barely realise they are infected. However, most cases of malaria, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, are caused by <em>Plasmodium falciparum<\/em>, which is a faster-acting, more severe form of malaria and usually results in fever and chills, often accompanied by headache and nausea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUESTION Could a person be infected by malaria without\u00a0symptoms of headache and chills? ANSWER Malaria symptoms vary considerably, depending on the type of malaria, the severity of the infection and the patient&#8217;s natural immunity. It is certainly possible for a patient to have malaria without experiencing headache and chills; some people infected with certain forms [&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":[428,748,883,1338,1718,1726],"class_list":["post-3686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-questions","tag-chills","tag-fever","tag-headache","tag-malaria-symptoms","tag-plasmodium-falciparum","tag-plasmodium-malariae","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaria.epicenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686","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=3686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/malaria.epicenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaria.epicenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaria.epicenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaria.epicenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}