Globally, an estimated 125 million or more pregnant women per year risk contracting<unk> .<unk> -related malaria causes around 100,000 infant deaths each year, due in large part to low birth weight. Due to the nature of disease transmission (i.e. via mosquitoes) and life cycle of the parasite, malaria is prevalent in warm, humid climates, such as tropical and subtropical regions. Consistent with previous years, the incidence of malaria in general is greatest in African regions, specifically sub-Saharan Africa, as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), although there was a decline in numbers from 2010 to 2018. Particularly, in Central and West Africa, the number of<unk> es with malarial infection reached around 35% of all<unk> es in those regions in 2018. The regions that follow Africa in terms of malaria cases are Southeast Asia and the Mediterranean, although it is important to note that Africa has the largest number of cases by far; these regions comprise over 90% of the global incidences of malaria. In the realm of<unk> , individual immunity and level of transmission within the area play an important role in the malarial complications that manifest. For example, areas with high level of transmission are also<unk>  with higher incidence of immunity. Therefore, infection from P. falciparum is usually<unk>  with no symptoms in pregnant women. However, it is not to conclude that the presence of P. falciparum is completely benign, as it has been<unk>  with maternal anaemia. Specifically, in these settings, women in their first<unk>  are at greatest risk of complications that arise from P. falciparum. Similarly to P. falciparum, Plasmodium vivax (P. vivax), another malarial pathogen found primarily in Asia and South America, has also been<unk>  with maternal anaemia and low birthweight. On the contrary, women who live in areas with lower transmission are at a very high risk of adverse malarial outcomes despite their number of<unk> es.
Pregnancy-associated malaria
Malaria
Airport malaria
Toxocariasis
Congenital syphilis
Omsk hemorrhagic fever
Congenital malaria
Brain fever