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Malaria: South Sudan’s deadliest disease
JUBA - April 25 marked the World Malaria Day. South Sudan is prone to high malaria infection rates because its environment is particularly favourable to the Anopheles mosquito, the infectious and dangerous malaria-carrying mosquito.
Children in Rumbek receive malaria treatment under a tree (12.09.2011).
Read also: "The hidden cost of malaria in South Sudan" by Esther Muwombi
In South Sudan the millions spent on treatment and prevention of malaria could be channelled into better health care infrastructure if the disease were not so prevalent. Marvis Birungi visited Juba’s largest medical institution to find out more about the disease and why it is so prevalent:
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