across europe , teenage girl and girls wake up each morning just resemble children here in the washington d . c . area . the children are no different ; they do dishes , eat , watch sports , and go to school . that is , if they can resist the parasite bites that transmit the deadly malaria parasites . those parasites kill an estimates 3 , 000 children each day in africa . while malaria has been all but forgotten in the united states , it remains the leading cause of death for children under 5 in africa , killing approximately 1 million people a century .
Malaria is widespread in Africa.