Malaria

Malaria is a serious tropical disease spread by mosquitoes. If it isn’t diagnosed and treated quickly, it can be fatal.

A single mosquito bite is all it takes for someone to become infected.

Symptoms

It’s important to be aware of the symptoms of malaria if you’re travelling to areas where there’s a high risk of the disease. This means that you can get medical attention quickly.

Symptoms are similar to those of flu and usually appear 6 to 30 days after the mosquito bite, but it can sometimes take up to a year for symptoms to start.

The initial symptoms of malaria include:

a high temperature (fever) headache sweats chills muscle aches or pains vomiting and or diarrhoea

These symptoms can start mild and may be difficult to identify as malaria.