Ever since Malaria is known, its symptoms includes high fever, with chills and shivering, but with the dramatic twist in the malaria parasite which is experiencing genetic mutations during the past few years, patients suffering from Malaria are showing some additional symptoms also like diarrohea, headache and persistent cough.

Dr Kushrav Bajan, intensive care physician at PD Hinduja Hospital, Mahim said that earlier when somebody start coughing, doctors bracket it as a viral infection and does not include it as a symptom of Malaria but this monsoon, many patients diagnosed with Malaria have been coughing persistently for more than a week.

Previously, Falciparum malaria was considered as critical and it leads to severe complications but now many patients suffering from vivax strain are also facing severe complications like liver or kidney failures, acute lung injury etc. Doctors also said that some times this vivax strain prove to be fatal.

Dr Hemant Thacker told that two of his patients suffering from malaria are in ICU and one has undergone kidney failure and other is facing lung problem.

Due to changes in the genetic composition of vivax parasite, Malaria is including such severe complications, said by doctors.

Dr Bajna, said that due to mutation, blood samples of patients are tested as negative for malaria in their first week of showcasing symptoms.

Doctors also state that it is very rear to find a case in which a relation exist between decreased heart pumping and malaria as the parasite affects blood circulation.

It was known that malaria weakens the heart muscles but it can cause heart attack is never heard but this time a patient suffering from Malaria died due to heart attack at the hospital. Doctors are considering that person died due to blood clotting which takes place due to unusual strain of malaria, mentioned by Dr Vijay Surase, interventional cardiologist at Thane's Jupiter Hospital.

One more Dr Anand Bhave hold the point that Malaria could affect the heart in rarest of rare cases.

With this experience doctors in the hospital are arranging to conduct electrocardiograms and 2-D echo scans of patients suffering from Malaria and experiencing breathlessness.