Malaria
Fancy the world’s deadliest animal and you’re probably thinking of a shark or a snake, but the tiny mosquito is actually far more dangerous. At 1.6 cm long and weighing less than a teaspoon of sugar, this lethal insect causes millions of deaths each year.1 Their bite can transmit potentially fatal infectious diseases.
On World Mosquito Day, we take a closer look at three mosquito-borne diseases-malaria, yellow fever and Japanese encephalitis-for which we are developing solutions and treatments in the hope of one day wiping them out.
Malaria
Malaria is the deadliest and most prevalent parasitic disease on the planet, occurring mainly in Africa. According to the World Health Organization, there were approximately 219 million cases and 435,000 deaths due to malaria in 2017, mostly among children in Africa, where one child dies from the disease every two minutes.2 Malaria also has socio-economic consequences in the affected countries that include poverty and school absenteeism.
Because today’s children are tomorrow’s adults, educating them is an effective means of fighting malaria. Too many people, particularly children, are still unaware of the link between a mosquito and malaria.
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