Transmission of malaria

Occurs when an infected person is bitten by a female anopheles mosquito. the insect is a vector as it is not harmed by the pathogen, when the female anopheles takes another blood meal, this time from an unifected people, plasmodium is injected into the person with an anticoagulant from the salivary gland. the antigoagulant prevetns the human blood from clotting and so allows the mosquito to suck the blood up.