Ann

This sponsor child was only about two so I really didn't have any sort of close connection with him. In fact I think the charity assigned this boy because he was too young to write and in reflection of my past correspondence efforts ie next to nil.

But I thought it was worth posting as it again shows malaria is something worth paying some attention to and taking some precautions.

I imagine Michigan in summer does have considerable numbers of insects as it is so wet. Without human carriers the mosquito species capable of passing on malaria do not have a source of the disease. There was a couple of cases of malaira being passed on in Northern Queensland a few years ago as someone obviously passed on infected blood.

We have another mosquito / blood disease in Australia called Ross River virus which causes muscle and joint inflammation (I believe). Now Ross River is to the East of Alice Springs in the middle of the continent and the middle of a desert. Hardly the place one would expect a moaquito borne disease to originate from.