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Malaria is a serious, sometimes fatal disease caused by a parasite.
It occurs in over 100 countries and territories. Large areas of Central and South America, Hispaniola, Africa, the Indian subcontinent, South East Asia, the Middle East and Oceania are considered malaria-risk areas. The World Health Organization estimates that yearly 300 - 500 million cases of malaria occur and more than 1 million people die of malaria. Humans get malaria from the bite of a mosquito infected with malaria. When a mosquito bites a person already infected with malaria, it ingests microscopic malarial parasites found in that persons blood.