Malaria - Keeping a Crafty Killer on the Run

Imagine that snake attacks were killing a person a minute. Or that it was dogs, or foxes or chickens that were killing three-quarters of a million people a year. Envision the non-stop media coverage - and the public outcry to stop the carnage. Instead, the mass killer is the mosquito, weighing in at 2.4 milligrams, about the same as two human eyelashes, and capable of transmitting malaria. Today, on World Malaria Day, as on any given day, an estimated 3,000 children will die of malaria -- most of them before their fifth birthday.

A child lies under a mosquito net in Somalia.

Mosquitoes.

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