Malaria vs. Typhoid — What's the Difference?

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects humans and other animals. Malaria causes symptoms that typically include fever, tiredness, vomiting, and headaches.

Typhoid fever.

An infectious disease characterized by cycles of chills, fever, and sweating, caused by a protozoan of the genus Plasmodium in red blood cells, which is transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected female anopheles mosquito.

Of, relating to, or resembling typhoid fever.

(Archaic) Bad or foul air; miasma.

Characterised by or relating to typhus.

A disease spread by mosquito, in which a protozoan, Plasmodium, multiplies in blood every few days.

Of or pertaining to typhus; resembling typhus; of a low grade like typhus; as, typhoid symptoms.

(archaic) Supposed poisonous air arising from marshy districts, once thought to cause fever.

Serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; caused by Salmonella typhosa ingested with food or water

Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma.

A human disease caused by infection of red blood cells by a protozoan of the genus Plasmodium, giving rise to fever and chills and many other symptoms, characterized by their tendency to recur at definite and usually uniform intervals. The protozoal infection is usually transmitted from another infected individual by the bite of an Anopheles mosquito.

An infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever