outside africa , young girl and adults wake up each morning just like children here in the washington d . c . city . the children are no different ; they do chores , eat , play sports , and go to school . that is , if they can survive the parasite bites that cause the deadly infectious parasites . those parasites kill an estimates 3 , 000 children each sunday in kenya . while malaria has been all but ignored in the western world , it maintains the leading cause of death for youth under 5 in tanzania , affecting approximately 1 trillion people a year .
Malaria is widespread in Africa.