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Malaria vs Yellow Fever

Malaria and yellow fever are similar in the sense that they are both diseases carried by mosquitoes and move from one victim to the next. Neither malaria \(\begin{matrix}I\\......\end{matrix}\) yellow fever can be transmitted between human beings. Yellow fever is a viral infectious disease, whereas malaria is caused by the Plasmodic genus called eukaryotic protist. Mosquitoes infected with the yellow fever virus breed around houses, and in forests or jungles. Occasionally, infected travellers from areas where yellow fever occurs have exported cases to countries that are free of yellow fever, but the disease can only spread easily if that country has mosquito species able to transmit it, specific climatic conditions and the animal reservoir needed to maintain it.

According to estimates by the World Health Organization, about 200,000 deaths are caused by yellow fever per year, while there were 212 million malaria cases worldwide just in 2015. However, there has been a 21% decrease in malaria incidence between 2010 and 2015, as well as a 29% decrease in mortality rates during the same period.

The first case of yellow fever was officially recorded in 1793; malaria is believed to have affected humans for more than 500,000 years.

Malaria can affect any type of population but is commonly found in the tropics. Generally, yellow fever occurs in the equatorial region, which is why it is more common among Africans than Caucasians.

(Adapted from www.differencebetween.net)

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