Malaria infection harms wild African apes

 Malaria is a devastating disease caused by parasites transmitted through the bites of infected mosquitos. For humans, symptoms start out with — fever, headache and chills — but malaria infection can be fatal within 24 hours. For apes, little is known about what malaria sickness looks like, or how deadly it is.

“We don’t yet have a good handle on the symptoms and mortality risk,” said…