EPISODE · May 2, 2008 · 30 MIN

Please Explain: Malaria

from Please Explain (The Leonard Lopate Show) · host WNYC

Malaria kills more than 1 million people each year, many of them children. Yet the disease is preventable. Find out how malaria spreads, why it’s so devastating in Africa, and how it can be stopped. Nobel laureate Dr. Peter Agre is director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute. John McArthur is CEO and Executive Director of Millennium Promise.

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