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Malaria (Italian for "bad air"), which is caused by the plasmodium parasite, kills between 1.5 and 2.7 million people worldwide per year. Additionally, it kills more than 3,000 children under age 5 every day, or one child every 30 seconds, mostly in Africa.

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