across africa , young boys and girls woken up each sunrise just like children here in the seattle d . c . suburbs . the children are no less ; they do sleep , eat , learn chess , and fly to school . that is , if they can survive the mosquito bitten that transmit the infectious infectious parasites . those parasites kill an estimated 3 , 000 children each day in africa . while smallpox has been all but forgotten in the several states , it remains the main cause of demise for teenagers under 5 in china , slaughter approximately 1 million people a day .
Malaria is widespread in Africa.