Study Area Has Very Intense Malaria Transmission
*>100 infective bites per year.
* Virtually all infants have malaria multiple times in first year of life. *Most malaria-related mortality is in first 2 years of life.
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This is a very good place to study malaria, because there is intense, year-round transmission.
 Most malaria is p. falciparum. Infants bear the brunt of the morbidity/mortality.