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Malaria: Peru reports an increase in the incidence of the disease with more than 60,000 cases in 2015.

January 12th, 2017

“…Malaria is a parasitic disease, caused by a Plasmodium parasite, transmitted by the bite of a mosquito already infected with malaria. Only a few species of anophelines are able to transmit the parasite. In the Amazon basin, Anopheles darlingi is the major vector of the disease. …”

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