A report on Fever, Malaria and Sepsis

Malaria causes symptoms that typically include fever, tiredness, vomiting, and headaches.

Common signs and symptoms include fever, increased heart rate, increased breathing rate, and confusion.

This includes viral, bacterial, and parasitic infections—such as influenza, the common cold, meningitis, urinary tract infections, appendicitis, Lassa, COVID-19, and malaria.

Initial manifestations of the disease—common to all malaria species—are similar to flu-like symptoms, and can resemble other conditions such as sepsis, gastroenteritis, and viral diseases.

Intermittent fever, where the temperature elevation is present only for a certain period, later cycling back to normal (e.g., in malaria, leishmaniasis, pyemia, sepsis, or African trypanosomiasis );

The most common causes for parasitic sepsis are Plasmodium (which leads to malaria), Schistosoma and Echinococcus.