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Which are the symptoms of malaria?
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Fever: Fever, chills, headache and sweats with sometimes nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhea. After a week of daily fever, different malaria species begin to synchronize to have fever every other day (tertian) or every third day (quartan).
Answered 9/28/2016
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Malaria Symptoms: may include: headache, fever, shivering, sweating, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, dry cough, muscle/joint/back pain & enlarged spleen. There is a cyclic pattern of being very cold & shivering followed by feeling very hot and sweating. Additionally one can develop jaundice, blood in urine, anemia, eye problems (nystagmus, problems with eye movements), seizures & coma.
Answered 5/21/2018
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