| 1. Malaria kills over 3,000 children every day in Africa, or one child every 30 seconds.
2. Unlike many serious diseases, malaria is both preventable and treatable, making all deaths from malaria entirely unnecessary.
3. Malaria infects between 350 and 500 million people each year.
4. 90% of malaria cases occur in Africa and those who die from malaria worldwide (over 1 million each year) at least 75% are African children under the age of five.
5. Malaria has been eradicated from the United States for over 50 years.
6. While nearly 90% of Americans recognize AIDS as a "very serious" problem in the world, less than 30% of Americans are aware that malaria is also a grave threat.
7. Malaria causes sever flu-like symptoms including fever, vomiting and, if untreated, the disease can lead to coma, brain damage, life-threatening anemia and death.
8. Annual economic loss in Africa due to malaria totals an estimated $12 billion, representing a crippling 1.3 percent loss of GDP growth in endemic countries.
9. Malaria is a disease of the blood caused by a parasite transmitted from person to person by certain types of mosquitoes. These mosquitoes (anopheles0 are night-biting by nature.
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