Bereaved mum issues malaria warning

A mother who lost her 20-year-old son to malaria has urged people to take malaria medication.

Jo Yirrel's son Harry died within weeks of returning to the UK from a holiday to Ghana.

"My son Harry had anti-malarials. He didn't take them, he gave them away to the children around him," she said.

At home, Harry developed flu-like symptoms, which signal a disease which also causes feverish attacks, tiredness and diarrhoea.

According to NetDoctor.co.uk, 12 people of the 2,000 British travellers who come home with malaria, die each year.

Speaking on behalf of one of the UK's biggest importers of malaria medication malariahotspots.co.uk, Ms Yirrel urged people to take anti-malarial drugs.

A third of people travelling to malarial areas did not take the right mediation, according to Gapyear.com research.

Mosquitoes carry malaria, infecting people with a parasite known as plasmodium and 41 per cent of travellers to malarial areas did not even sleep under a net.

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