THE MALARIA LIFE CYCLE
Malaria starts off inside a human system, reproducing and growing in the blood. A female mosquito (the vector) from the Anopheles genus will come allong and drink some blood from the human and may pick up the malaria parasite. Once inside the mosquito's stomach, the parasite will stick to the wall of the stomach and secrete the malaria parasite into the bloodstream of the mosquito. All of this will occur over a period of 2-3 weeks.
Once inside the bloodstream, the malaria parasite makes its way to the salivary glands where it stays untill the mosquito injects the anti coagellent in its saliva and injects it into the blood of a human. Once inside the human body, the Plasmodiam parasite will make its way via the bloodstream to the liver, which assists in
digestion and gets rid of toxins in the body. Depending on the type of plasmodiam, this process can take between 9 days and 30 days.
Once inside the Liver, the parasite disguises itself as a protein to infiltrate a cell. It then poisons the cell and turns it into a factory, producing more parasite which infects the neighbouring cells and multiplies again. The factory cells then proceed to secrete a blood attacking malaria parasite into the bloodstream.
The parasite then infiltrates the red blood cells and turns them into factories releasing yet more toxins through asexual reproduction. The blood cell then bursts and releases all the parasite inside which go on to take over other red blood cells and multiply inside them. The amount of toxins in your blood can multiply exponentially untill, theoretically, you have no more blood left or you get cured. A mosquito can then come and drink some infected blood and begin the cycle again.
SYMPTOMS
This chart clearly shows the effect of malaria on the human body.
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