1 Swat! When a mosquito bites, you swat it. Mosquito bites get itchy, red, and uncomfortable. Some mosquito bites cause big trouble. A small boy in Kenya got very sick from a bug bite. Mosquito bites can cause a disease called malaria.
2 Jamal first got malaria when he was a baby. He was not very strong. He got sick often. He went to the hospital. Doctors gave him a drug called quinine. This drug helps people with malaria. It helped Jamal when he got sick.
3 Jamal's mother felt very scared when Jamal was sick. She said he was a playful child. Sometimes in the middle of a game, Jamal would get a stomachache. He would get a headache. He even had convulsions. It was hard for Jamal's mother when he had these attacks.
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