Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Malaria

I shared this on facebook, but I realized many who read this blog don't use facebook.

It seems 2-3 of our 54 resident students have malaria every day since school began. Had to bring one to the hospital to get fluids because he became too weak to walk. We need to put nets over their beds, but can't find them. Let's see, can't find bed nets and school has no text books. Something wrong with this picture.

One issue with mosquito's here is that they are smaller and you don't always see them or hear them at night. Sounds scary, like some kind of science fiction horror movie. To make it even scarier, we have three brothers in our community and one has not had malaria yet. I'll never tell.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/malaria-deaths-high-thought/story?id=15499330

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