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What is malaria?

What is malaria? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A disease spread by mosquito, in which a protozoan, Plasmodium, multiplies in blood every few days.
  2. (archaic) Supposed poisonous air arising from marshy districts, once thought to cause fever.
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We had a fright six months ago, when we thought he had cancer, but it turned out to be a rare doggy form of malaria he'd picked up in France.
Mosquitoes spread about four million malaria cases, causing about one million deaths globally each year.
He was a specialist adviser to the malaria consortium programme to promote malaria control strategies.
It's a topical microbicide and we found that it inhibited malaria and toxoplasma.
Already there are fears that climate change will push malaria carrying mosquitoes even further afield.
The children suffered from eye strain, headaches, leg and shoulder pain, malaria, discoloration of hair, rotten teeth and dysentery.

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