Malaria Hotspots

How It Spreads?

Malaria is caught by being bitten by an infected mosquito. The malaria mosquito is most active between dusk and dawn. It only takes a single bite for the malaria parasite to enter the bloodstream and travel to the liver. Once there, it can lie dormant for up to a year before becoming active.

For more information on how the disease is spread once a person is infected see the malaria lifecycle.

There are ways to treat malaria but prevention is always better than cure. For advice on protection, click here.

MALARIA PREVENTION

What you can do
to avoid infection.