There are fears that the deadly disease is spreading to new communities in the country – and just at a time when the development of the world’s first mosquito vaccine is raising hopes malaria could one day be eradicated.
Mary Achieng’s family is in the malaria ward at Nightingale Hospital in western Kenya almost every month. On this visit in late August, she’s being treated along with her two sons, aged 4 and 12. All three are recovering from a disease that has long devastated their region. “Malaria has hit my family hard. In a month, I use about $35 on drugs and the following month, one of them falls sick again,” she said.
“And we are seeing that actually the public health system is not prepared for this resurgence,” he told CNN. It is a problem that affects many countries in Africa, which shoulders 95% of malaria infections, killing more than 600,000 people annually – most of them children. A recent report found that malaria-transmitting mosquitoes have reached new heights in sub-Saharan Africa, on average climbing 21 feet in elevation every year over the last 120 years.
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