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Test Your Knowledge About Malaria

Malaria is a serious disease -- each year 350 to 500 million cases occur worldwide, and over one million people die, most of them young children in sub-Sahara Africa. Test your knowledge of this deadly disease and find out more about it and its history on the results page.

True or false? Malaria has been noted in human history for more than 4,000 years.

True.
False.

What causes malaria?

Drinking or cooking with dirty water.
A parasite that infects a certain type of mosquito which feeds on people.
When people eat animals infected by a certain virus.
Sleeping out in the open.

How much of the world's population lives in malaria-affected areas?

15%.
27%.
41%.
67%.

True or false? Once you have malaria, it is contagious and can spread easily from person to person, like a cold.

True.
False.

True or false? Malaria is an incurable disease.

True.
False.

Special trivia question: The two most important antimalarial drugs, artemisinin and quinine, were:

Derived from plants whose medicinal values have been noted for centuries.
Developed by the pharmaceutical industry after public outcry over malarial deaths at the Panama Canal.
Discovered accidently by renowned chemist and microbiologist, Louis Pasteur.
Are found in trace amounts in leafy green vegetables.

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