Malaria is a protozoan disease and the microbe reaches human body through mosquito bite.
Step-by-step explanation:
Five species of plasmodium protozoan are found to cause malaria each causing disease with varying severity. Plasmodium falciparum species causes the most severe form of malaria. Malaria is spread by female Anopheles mosquitoes.
The typical symptoms of malaria are fever, headache, vomiting etc. In severe cases it causes death. The pathogen reaches the blood of healthy individual through the bite of Anopheles mosquito carrying the infected person’s blood.