Today is the first-ever
World Malaria Day , which organizers hope will raise our collective awareness about this disease. The mosquito-borne illness kills more than a million people a year, mostly infants, children, and pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa. According to the
World Health Organization , that's
one child every 30 seconds . These deaths occur despite the fact that malaria is a preventable and treatable condition.
Insecticide-treated bed nets keep the skeeters off sleepers and reduce the rate of infection. You can donate one--heck, they cost a paltry 10 bucks apiece! Donate a few!--at Malaria No More,
here .
[
Editor's note: And if you are on Facebook, please join in Project Blackout: One Million Faces Against Malaria today .]
Insecticide-treated bed nets keep the skeeters off sleepers and reduce the rate of infection. You can donate one--heck, they cost a paltry 10 bucks apiece! Donate a few!--at Malaria No More, here .
[ Editor's note: And if you are on Facebook, please join in Project Blackout: One Million Faces Against Malaria today .]