... asexually) 3) The Plasmodium parasite bursts out of the red blood cells 4) Meterozoites re-invade more red blood cells (or return to re-invade the liver) 5) Gametes are formed in the red blood cell (thus the start of the sexual reproductive cycle) 6) Anopheles Mosquito sucks up gametes from human blood 7) Gametes fertilise and zygote is formed in the mosquito's stomach (Final part of sexual reproduction). 8) Zygotes form Sporozoites, and move to the mosquito's salivary glands. (Snyder.W, 1999)(Sartor. A 1994). Thus the sequence of events begins again, through the mosquito biting another host. Malaria can not only be passed to humans through the Anopheles mosquito (as above), but it can also be transmitted through blood transfusions, with the blood of infected people, and contracted to an unborn child, from its infected mother. Describe the host response The host response is primarily the immune's response to 'get rid' of the foreign pathogen present. ...

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