across somalia , some boys and girls wake up each morning just likes children here in the washington d . c . area . the youth are no more ; they do chores , eaten , play sports , and go to school . that is , if they can survive the malaria bites that transmit the deadly malaria infection . those things kill an estimated 3 , 000 children each day in africa . while malaria has been all but forgotten in the united states , it remains the top cause of mortality for adults under 5 in africa , killed approximately 1 hundred adults a year .
Malaria is widespread in Africa.