Each year, approximately 500 million people will be infected with<unk> worldwide Of those infected, roughly two million will die from the disease.<unk> is caused by six Plasmodium species: Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium ovale curtisi, Plasmodium ovale wallikeri,<unk>  and Plasmodium knowlesi. At any one time, an estimated 300 million people are said to be infected with at least one of these Plasmodium species and so there is a great need for the development of effective treatments for decreasing the yearly mortality and morbidity rates. Geographical areas of<unk> transmission<unk>  is the one of the least studied of the six species that infect humans, in part because of its low prevalence and milder clinical manifestations compared to the other species. It is widespread throughout sub-Saharan Africa, much of southeast Asia, Indonesia, on many of the islands of the western Pacific and in areas of the Amazon Basin of South America. In endemic regions, prevalence ranges from less than 4% to more than 20%, but there is evidence that<unk>  infections are vastly underreported. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has an application that allows people to view specific parts of the world and how they are affected by Plasmodium vivax, and other types of the Plasmodium parasite. It can be found at the following link: http://cdc.gov/malaria/map/index.html.
Plasmodium malariae
Plasmodium vivax
Plasmodium ovale
Plasmodium chabaudi
Plasmodium knowlesi
Plasmodium unalis
Plasmodium yoelii
Leishmania infantum