Unlike Africa's Great Lakes, which are known for freshwater beaches and cool evenings, Lake Kwania is more of a giant swamp: shallow, full of crocodiles and choked with lilies, papyri and hyacinths — an ideal place for the malaria parasite. These women, above, all of whom have had malaria, dig for fish in one of the many swamps near the lake in Apac district.
There are no cities near Apac with public-health programs, and the few pieces of dry land are packed with a living blood bank of people. The average Apac resident is bitten tens of thousands of times a year, of which 1,586 bites — or four a day — carry malaria.
Research has shown that in Apac, the indigenous Anopheles funestus mosquito bites human flesh 190 times a night.
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