It is reported that on the continent of Africa alone this mosquito-borne malady claims the life of a million children annually.

“After some two decades of relative dormancy,” reports To the Point International, “malaria is threatening to assume epidemic proportions again in India. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that by 1980 the mosquito carried disease will have touched 12 million people, of whom 400,000 will die; and the possibility is increasing the urgency of the organisation’s attempts to find an immunising agent.”