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DEFINITION: (noun) Fever. SYNONYMS: febricity, febrility, feverishness. USAGE: His pyrexia made the doctors nervous, and they immersed him in a bath of ice water to bring down his body temperature.

An estimated 525,000 to 2 million African children die each year from malaria, an infectious disease transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected female Anopheles mosquito. In a project hailed as a model for other African countries, Kenya's heath ministry has distributed 13.5 million insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) since 2003. As a result, Kenya was able to cut child deaths from malaria by over 40%. Malaria is Kenya's biggest childhood killer, leading to the deaths of about 34,000 children under age 5 annually.

Nursery Rhymes are generally brief, anonymously written songs or verses intended for children. Though these rhymes are thought to help develop vocabulary and counting skills, scholars have actually linked many of these rhymes to historic events. For example, some believe that "Pop Goes the Weasel" is about silk weavers bringing their shuttles or bobbins (known as "weasels") to pawnbrokers to exchange for drinking money. What event does “Ring a Ring O'Roses” supposedly reference?