Resistance to this disease caused by (*) Plasmodium is possessed by patients of sickle-cell anemia.
Charles Laveran won a Nobel in Medicine for identifying the cause of this disease. One medicine against this disease is called artemisinin. There are seven simian-infecting and five human-infecting species of the causative agent of this disease, with the falciparum variety accounting for most of the mortality. Resistance to this disease caused by (*) Plasmodium is possessed by patients of sickle-cell anemia. This disease can be treated by chewing on cinchona bark, which contains quinine. For 10 points, identify this disease spread by mosquitoes.
Charles Laveran won a Nobel in Medicine for identifying the cause of this disease.
malaria