People usually get malaria by being bitten by an infective female Anopheles mosquito.Malaria, the deadly mosquito-borne infection, has plagued humankind since ancient times. In the 20th century alone, malaria claimed between 150 million and 300 million lives, accounting for 2 to 5 percent of all deaths, according to the Institute of Medicine (U.S.) Committee on the Economics of Antimalarial Drugs.The World Health Organization (WHO) calculates that over 200 million cases of malaria are reported