Malaria

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-016352",
  "term": "Malaria",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. A disease, more common in areas with warm climates (e.g., South America, Africa), that is caused by a parasite and transmitted by the bite of an infected female mosquito. People infected with malaria have flu-like symptoms, most commonly chills and fever. More severe symptoms, such as seizures and coma, may also develop.\n\n2. Protozoan disease caused in humans by four species of the genus Plasmodium (P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, and P. malariae) and transmitted by the bite of an infected female mosquito of the genus Anopheles; malaria is endemic in parts of Asia, Africa, Central and South America, Oceania, and certain Caribbean islands; characterized by extreme exhaustion associated with paroxysms of high fever, sweating, shaking chills, and anemia; malaria in animals is caused by other species of plasmodia.",
  "references": [
    "NIH AIDS Info Glossary",
    "NIH Genetics Home Reference Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/malaria/"
}