Comments on: Human Malaria

By: Chris Giovagnoni

Chris Giovagnoni — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:01:49 +0000

And the answer is …

Four.

Four types of malaria infect humans, although only two types cause most deaths. Of those deaths, most occur among young children in Africa.

(Source: cdc.gov/malaria/biology/index.htm, November 2008)

Sara Benson — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:51:16 +0000

4 types. I think that with one of the types it comes back and you never fully get rid of it.

Judith Tremblay — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:33:11 +0000

Four types affect humans

(although most deaths are attributed to only two of them)

Mike Stephens — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:47:27 +0000

17 types, but I have no idea.

Sarah Charles — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:19:51 +0000

There are four types of human malaria: Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium vivax; Plasmodium malariae; Plasmodium ovale.