Removing ticks with bare fingers, cigarettes, insect repellent or other means has to be strongly discouraged. When walking in a tick danger area always carry a pair of fine tweezers. In later stages it will be much more difficult to treat, and frequent and long courses of more powerful antibiotics will be required. Unfortunately ignorance often lies behind this. The risk of catching malaria can be greatly reduced by applying common sense.
Malaria is caused by unicellular parasites of the Plasmodium genus.
When they bite another person the parasites are transferred into the new bloodstream and head for the liver. Once developed they start to attack the red blood cells and destroy them. Every time the blood cells fall apart, the patient suffers a fever attack. If left untreated more serious symptoms can develop, eventually leading to the death of the patient. You should also take anti-malarials.