Question: Is Malaria a contact disease between individuals?
Answer: The short answer is no. Malaria cannot be transmitted from person to person; it is transmitted via the bite of infected mosquitoes. The only exceptions are between a mother and her unborn child (the malaria parasite can pass across the placenta during pregnancy, causing a condition known as “congenital malaria” in the baby) and during blood transfusions, where the malaria parasite can be transmitted from the donor to the recipient if the blood is not properly screened.
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