What are the suggested strategies for reducing your chances of getting malaria?
(short answer question)

Definition:

Malaria:

A disease you can get from a bite of a infected mosquito.

Explanation:

One of the strategies you can take the reduce your chances of getting malaria is to stay away from mosquitoes. Malaria is caused by infected mosquitoes, by saying away from mosquitoes, you are lowering you chance of getting malaria. Some mosquitoes could be carrying the disease for Malaria, so you should just stay away from them at all cost. Many people do not like getting bit by mosquitoes anyways. That's one strategy to reduce your chances of getting Malaria.

Another strategy you can take to reduce your chances of getting malaria is to spray insect repellent on you. This is pretty much adding on to the first strategy, this will also keep the bugs away from you. When you spray insect repellent on you, it "repels" insects, in other words, it moves them away from you. This is really good when you're outside and there are a lot of mosquitoes. With this sprayed on you, they wouldn't go near you. This is another strategy to reduce your chances of getting Malaria.

Another strategy you can take to reduce your chances of getting Malaria is by wearing clothes that cover most of your body. Mosquitoes tend to bite people because they can see skin, and the mosquitoes target the skin to bite. By covering up your skin, you will not lure the mosquitoes to you, which would keep them away from biting you and possibly infecting you with Malaria. The specific areas to cover are your arms and your legs. You could also use a mosquito net. This is another strategy you could take to reduce your chances of getting Malaria.

The last way you can take to reduce your chances of getting Malaria is by taking Malaria prevention tablets. What these tablets do is during the situation of you actually getting bit by a mosquito, these tablets will fight the infection and killing the infection before it gets worse. Take the right amount of tablets recommended, so you don't overdose. This is another strategy you could take to reduce your chances of getting Malaria.

-Julie