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What Is Malaria?

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Malaria is a disease caused by parasites carried around by mosquitoes. Symptoms include headache, fever, fatigue, back pain, perspiration, coughing, nausea, and vomiting.

Treatment for malaria includes taking medication. Common drug classes used to treat malaria are antimalarials, antirheumatics, antifolate antimalarials, and tetracycline antibodies.

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