If you got infected with malaria will it change the genes or not? And if you are planing on having children will it affect them
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Naw, it’s a parasite. Like a tape-worm, just smaller. It’s not a virus which hi-jacks your cell’s tools by feeding them it’s own DNA. And it’s certainly not a retrovirus which have gotten their code into our genome. It’s just a tiny bug that’s eating all the food you eat as it swims around in your blood. Still a serious disease though. Real bad if pregnant women get it.
No, the Plasmodium parasites that cause malaria disease don’t infect the egg/sperm cells that make up your potential future children, and also just don’t do anything to change genetic material of the cells they do infect. In fact, those cells (red blood cells) have no nucleus and genetic material at all.
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