Malaria An Enemy to Fear During Pregnancy

Susceptibility to malaria increases with pregnancy, and one hundred and twenty-five million pregnant women in the world are at risk of contracting the disease, which causes morbidity and mortality in them, fetuses and infants. The objective of this paper is to comment on the general and specific characteristics of the epidemiological and pathophysiological field that define infection and disease in the mother and child binomial based on the documentary review that is currently available on the subject, in this sense it is shown the parasitic agents involved, placental sequestration is described, symptoms and complications of the pregnant woman, consequences of congenital malaria infection in the fetus and infant, the epidemiological behavior of the pathology and the need for new and more in-depth investigations is highlighted, since There is much that is not known about it.