Malaria is a fever transmitted by the bite of a female mosquito (anopheles). The fever is contagious and potentially fatal, but it can be treated. The main cause of the disease is a virus transmitted by female mosquitoes, which feed on the blood of people bitten by them. If not treated in time, malaria can be fatal. It is not transmitted from human to human, but only through mosquito bites... Hygiene and health" programme, broadcast on Don Bosco radio.