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Employee of the timber industry in Amazon being cared for malaria at Santarem Municipal Hospital, Para State, Brazil - patient receives the tenderness of his mother - malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans caused by eukaryotic protists of the genus Plasmodium. It is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions. The disease results from the multiplication of malaria parasites within red blood cells, causing symptoms that typically include fever and headache, in severe cases progressing to coma, and death.