| Persistent Plague
Dyer, Ervin
The Crisis, Sep/Oct 2006, v 113, # 5, pp26-30
“Once present in the blood, the parasite multiplies and ruptures red blood cells, which then release toxins that can cause kidney failure and infect the brain, causing fever, convulsion and flu-like symptoms. Every day, more than 270 people succumb to malaria in Tanzania, most of them pregnant women or children younger than 5, people whose immune systems, already wracked by poor nutrition, cannot muster the strength to stand against malaria's crippling anemia or other wrenching complications. Dr. Andrew Kitua, director of the National Institute for Medical Research in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's commercial capital, says: ‘The fallout from malaria deaths is like having a September 11 every month." Ervin Dyer is a Pittsburgh reporter who covers African and African American
culture and health issues.
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