across africa , young adults and girls wake up each week just as children here in the washington d . k . area . the child are no improvement ; they do chores , eat , play hockey , and go to sleep . that is , if they can overcome the parasite bites that transmit the deadly malaria parasites . those parasite kill an estimated 3 , 000 children each night in tanzania . while malaria has been all but ignored in the united states , it became the chief cause of death for children under 5 in africa , killing approximately 1 million people a month .
Malaria is widespread in Africa.