According to the CDC,
Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by a parasite. People with malaria often experience fever, chills, and
flu-like illness. Left untreated, they may develop severe complications
and die. Each year 350-500 million cases of malaria occur worldwide,
and over one million people die, most of them young children in sub-Saharan Africa.
Each day 1 person dies of Malaria every 30 seconds. That is 565,000 deaths per year that can easily be prevented by giving out insecticide-treated bed nets for kids and families to sleep under, as well as by giving anti-malarial drugs.
The fastest thing we can do is to buy bed nets for the people living in the malaria rampant areas (see map above).
Follow the links below to buy a net and save lives ($10 will buy one, $20 will buy two, you get the picture) --
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