Eli5: What happens if you got malaria? Will it change the genes? Or do your parents pass it down.

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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.

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