The World Health Organization says mosquitoes carry organisms that cause disease and death for
millions of people throughout the world. The most important disease spread by mosquitoes is malaria.
The W.H.O. says two hundred forty-seven million people became infected with malaria in two
thousand six. Malaria caused almost one million deaths, mostly among children in Africa. The disease
is found in more than one hundred countries in Africa, Asia, the western Pacific Ocean, the Middle
East and Central and South America.