The risk of contracting malaria in Mauritania lessens the further north you go.
In 2009, two of her daughters, Francine and Josiane, died after contracting malaria.
The nets will help protect those who sleep under them from contracting malaria, which kills up to 50,000 Zambians a year, mostly children.
But they did not account for the deadly mosquitoes: 22,000 of the project's workers died after contracting malaria and yellow fever.
In the forests of eastern Congo, Che Guevara spent months trying politely to rouse the slothful Simba guerrillas into action, but succeeded only in contracting malaria.
After contracting malaria, he was sent to a base in Santa Barbara, Calif., where he met Lorraine McNeill in a Baptist church.
There, in 1993, he nearly died after contracting malaria while trying to document the environmental damage Chevron was causing in the region.
The chief fear of traveling students should not be pickpockets or contracting malaria, but the gradual effacement of their experiences so that they become nothing more than a distant memory.
She delivers all this without drama, apparently unaware that the whole period sounds like a plotline for The Hangover 4. After contracting malaria, she spent two weeks in intensive care in Johannesburg.
At Tulu Bulu hospital, a public clinic on leafy grounds 60km south of Addis Ababa, 26-year-old Chala Duba is back for a check-up after contracting malaria.
The first tour event of the year on United States soil took place without Natalie Gulbis, who was not able to play after contracting malaria during the Asian swing.
