The invasive bite of a mosquito floods the human bloodstream with unwelcomed saliva. While most mosquito bites are a source of skin irritation, infected mosquitoes can transmit germs that cause yellow fever, dengue and malaria in humans. Malaria is a harmful disease that has great affect worldwide. It is responsible for about two million deaths a year. The transmitter of the pathogen that causes malaria is the female Anopheles mosquito.
Malaria exists in Asia, Africa and Brazil.
Sixty out of the total three hundred eighty species of Anopheles mosquitoes carry the germs that cause malaria. To avoid the disease, some people take anti-malarial drugs. In some cases, though they can still get malaria. Anti-malarial drugs are not as effective, but unfortunately there is no known vaccine yet developed for malaria. In order for a person to contract malaria a female Anopheles mosquito uses its proboscis to penetrate the victim's skin.