Answer to Question #44281 in Biology for Shayan

Question

Malaria spread through Mosquitos . Malarial patient have plasmodium in its blood . When mosquito bite him the plasmodium enter in it and when that mosquito bite other person he will got malaria. My question where does the first person appeared who has malaria and from where does the first malarial patient got the malaria

Answer 1

In regions of central Africa malaria is endemic. Malaria is caused by four types of human malaria parasites in the genus Plasmodium, which are carried by female Anopheles mosquitoes. However, there are over 200 species of malaria. Birds, bats, lizards and antelopes are also hosts for malaria parasites. Thus, some animal malaria parasite could have acquired the ability to cause malaria in humans through evolution