Each facility is located above 1,600 m, an altitude above that defined as characterizing highland/epidemic-prone malaria (18 – 20 ), although such limits have been challenged (5 ) The average altitudinal limits of the wider area shown in Figure 1 range from 1,600 to 2,200 m.
Three miles from the White House on the third-highest point in Washington, the house provided a respite from the swampy heat of the city, then also prone to malaria.
Owing to the swampy lands and high rainfall, about 200 inches per year, the area is prone to malaria and flooding.
Over 90% of the population live in high endemic areas with perennial transmission, while 10% live in low transmission areas which are prone to malaria epidemics [17].
In Ethiopia, nearly 70% of the population resides in areas prone to malaria infection.
Conversely, children who lack semi-immunity but have more severe type 1 diabetes mellitus may be particularly prone to malaria.
Because they will always ask, 'why am I taking this?' We first explain: 'you are taking this because you are pregnant, you are prone to malaria.
We investigated the effects of deforestation on microclimates and sporogonic development of Plasmodium falciparum parasites in Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes in an area of the western Kenyan highland prone to malaria epidemics.
UNICEF is therefore setting three ambitious goals: First, that by the year 2000, a fifth of children under five years of age, in areas prone to malaria, should be sleeping under a bed net or an impregnated material; second, that this proportion should rise to half by the year 2005; third, that all children should have universal access to bed nets by the year 2010.
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The rate ratios for the combined malaria prone areas given on Table 4 show that in malaria prone areas higher prompt treatment with anti-malaria drugs for children with fever has significant reduction effect on both infant and child mortality rates compared to lower prompt treatment.
