What's worse, malaria or Lyme disease?

The two disesases are largely different in terms of etiological agent, diffusion, symptoms and prognosis. Malaria is caused by a protozoa belonging to the genre of Plasmodium, transmitted by Anopheles mosquito. read more

Malaria kills people far more frequently than Lyme disease does. Death is possible with Lyme, but very rare. Malaria spreads much more easily than Lyme disease too, because mosquito bites happen much more frequently than tick bites. read more

Malaria and Lyme disease are common vector-borne illnesses. While malaria is caused by a tropical parasite, Lyme disease is transmitted by a non-tropical bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb). In the 2017 issue of Clinical Case Reports, doctors in Portugal describe the case of a 42-year-old man who was initially diagnosed with malaria but later found to also be infected with Borrelia. read more