How long after an infected mosquito bite do malaria symptoms usually begin?

Typically, individuals bitten by malaria-carrying mosquitoes do not experience symptoms until 10 to 28 days after the initial infection.1

Following the bite, the parasites travel to the liver, where they mature and multiply before reentering the bloodstream to infect red blood cells. The onset of clinical signs—which often include fever, chills, headache, and muscle aches—coincides with the subsequent destruction of these blood cells.12