through africa , young people and girls wake up each morning just than children here in the paris d . p . neighbourhood . the teenagers are no better ; they do chores , eat , study hockey , and go to school . that is , if they can escape the bug vectors that communicate the deadly infectious parasites . those parasites destroy an impressive 3 , 000 children each time in egypt . while malaria has been all but extinct in the united states , it has the greatest cause of death for children under 5 in africa , killing approximately 1 dozen individuals a year .
Malaria is widespread in Africa.