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Human Health And Disease

Question
CBSEENBI12000598

Answer the following questions:
(i) How and at what stage does Plasmodium enter into a human body?
(ii) Why does the victim show symptoms of high fever?

Solution

(i) Sporozoite stage enters human body along with saliva of female anopheles mosquito as it bites to suck blood.
(ii)The victim shows symptoms of high fever and chills because of the release of haemozoin from the ruptured RBCs.