1.   Adults who contract malaria do not become as ill as children do, apparently because they have built up resistance to the disease, Godal said.

2.   But he contracted malaria and later went to the United States to join other family members.

3.   Children fall from the open balconies, die of diarrhea or contract malaria.

4.   Dikembe Mutombo contracted malaria during a visit to his home in the Republic of Congo and is just beginning to regain his strength.

5.   Last year, after a long visit to his father in Nigeria, he contracted malaria, missed a month of training camp and played in only two games.

6.   Mattes likely contracted malaria, which still is found in South and Central America, Africa and Asia, through a bite from an infected mosquito.

7.   Ndeti, who contracted malaria in February and had his training set back, fell out of the lead pack early on.

8.   Some felt so odd that they wondered if they had contracted malaria.

9.   There, he contracted recurring malaria that probably contributed to his death.

10.   A person contracts malaria when an infected mosquito injects the virus into the bloodstream and the parasite initially lodges in the human liver.