Another 2,000 people are hospitalized. More than 3,055 malaria cases, and some 1,386 people have been admitted for treatment since the beginning of the month. According to the Associated Press, a reporter found patients writhing on the floor because there were no free beds. Health officials said current medicine supplies are insufficient to handle thousands of cases. Malaria kills an estimated 1 million people a year in Africa.
Female mosquitoes transmit the malaria parasite, which kills blood cells.
Symptoms include high fever and chills. Floods Continue Assault on Germany Floods wreaked more havoc and took at least one more life in Germany this week. Hundreds of residents were evacuated or taken to higher ground Tuesday when a dam broke, aggravating already severe flooding in southern Germany. Nearly 200 soldiers worked urgently to pile sandbags to reinforce weakened dikes, threatening to burst. Search teams looked for her but officials said that there was little chance she had survived.