The Most Malarial Town on Earth

The Most Malarial Town on Earth (click for the photo slideshow)

While in Uganda I received an email from CTA Director Rachel in DC telling me to be sure I was using bug spray. She had just read in TIME magazine that Apac Uganda was identified as the most malarial town in the world. I was neighboring Apac. This report notes that "The average Apac resident is bitten tens of thousands of times a year, of which 1,586 bites — or four a day — carry malaria." We did use bug spray, but against these mosquitoes the spray didn't do a thing. The battle is a tough one. Almost everyone in my house had malaria at some point in my trip. Thankfully the medicine (when one can afford it, although it wasn't too pricy) was effective. However, there are resistances to the medicine. 

Apac is in the darker pink section in the north, bordering Lira

USAID sprays chemicals to try and reduce the amount of mosquitoes... but this has been largely ineffective and is a joke among locals. 

USAID Sprayers (from net-- but I saw the teams on bikes, think Ghostbusters)