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Sector Analysis
Malaria: Opportunity Analysis and Forecasts to 2027
Malaria is a potentially life-threatening disease caused by Plasmodium parasites, which are transmitted to humans through the bites of infected female Anopheles spp mosquitoes. For over 2,500 years, fevers, a hallmark symptom of malaria, were attributed to miasmas (foul stenches or vapors) rising from nearby swamps. Scientific studies of malaria became possible only after Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran’s discovery of the causative parasite in 1880 and the subsequent incrimination of mosquitoes as the vectors—first for avian malaria by Ronald Ross...