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How can malaria be considered a waterborne disease?

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Dr. Dr Vasanthasree Nair

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Malaria is the world's most important parasitic disease transmitted from one person to another through the bite of female Anopheles mosquitoes, which breed in fresh or occasionally brackish water.

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