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Observing Bay Area World Malaria Day
The statistics are alarming. "Every 45 seconds a child in Africa dies from malaria, a disease spread by a single mosquito bite. There are more than 200 million cases of malaria each year, and nearly 1 million of those infected die from the disease — most of them children under the age...
A malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, feeding on human blood. (Photo by Anthony Cornel)