>80 percent of the people who die in various African countries due to malaria are children under 5. “Under 5” is not really an infant though. Newborn infants

>80 percent of the people who die in various African countries due to malaria are children under 5. “Under 5” is not really an infant though. Newborn infants in endemic areas are markedly resistant to malaria. Consequently, severe disease is rare during the first few months of life, and infections tend to be low density and relatively asymptomatic during this period.(1) Studies have shown the incidence of malaria and parasitaemia in infants is very low. Study 1: The malaria incidence density was 1.1/1000 person-months in infants under 3mo (2). Study 2: The annual number of malaria cases ranged from 12 to 120 cases in infants <5kg per sub-Saharan country studied. The majority of patients recovered from their illness following treatment.(3) Now that’s not nothing of course, and infants deserve special attention. Still malaria research resources are limited and ought to be appropriately prioritized to the highest risk populations (1)https://www.cell.com/trends/parasitology/pdf/S1471-4922(03)00321-0.pdf https://www.cell.com/trends/parasitology/pdf/S1471-4922(03)0... (2)https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15950165/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15950165/ (3)https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23243081/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23243081/