DEATH BY MALARIA
• Number of fatal cases of malaria each year: over 1 million
• Most common age at death: 4 years
• Every 30 seconds, a child dies of malaria
• Five percent of African children are killed by malaria, almost 3,000 each day, or the equivalent of seven jumbo jets full of children crashing every day.
• Up to 23 percent of African infants are born with the malaria parasite.