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What is the difference between the West Nile virus and malaria?

April 26, 2017difference malaria virus West Nile

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What is the difference between the West Nile virus and malaria?

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West Nile is a virus; malaria is caused by a parasite. West Nile virus most severely affects people over the age of 50. Malaria is most severe in children and pregnant women; a bite from a mosquito that has fed on the blood of an infected bird spreads the West Nile virus. Malaria is spread by a female, night-biting Anopheles mosquito infected with the Plasmodium parasite.