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Vivax Malaria deaths:A cause for concern

It has always been considered the common or garden variety of Malaria, one that causes relapses,but can't kill you. The organism Plasmodium Vivax, spread by the bite of the Anopheles mosquito, is responsible for around a million cases of malaria in India each year, but not a single death. Now, two deaths in Goa have changed all that.