Background: Malaria is a parasitic disease which kills somewhere between 0.5 to 3.0 million people each year, 75% of these are children under the age of five. The most affected region is sub-Saharan Africa. Our aim was to study malaria in children admitted at Haydom Lutheran Hospital (HLH), which is remotely situated in the Mbulu district in northern Tanzania. The hospital covers an area with around ...