In mid January 2015, a three day period of excessive rain brought unprecedented floods to the small poor African country of Malawi. It displaced nearly quarter of a million people, devastated 64,000 hectares of land, and killed several hundred people. This shot shows A Medicin Sans Frontieres clinic in Makhanga testing local people for malaria, many of whom proved positive for the disease, as a result of the drying up flood waters providing ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes.
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Image id: 911-10939
Release status: Not Model or Property Released
Shot date: March 2015
Upload date: September 2015
Artist: Ashley Cooper
Release status: Not Model or Property Released
Shot date: March 2015
Upload date: September 2015
Artist: Ashley Cooper
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