Today is Africa Malaria Day. Over one million people die each year from the treatable and preventable disease; 80 percent of the deaths take place in Sub-Saharan Africa. Today, President Bush called for “a smart and sustained campaign” that involves distributing insecticide-treated bed nets, expanding indoor insecticide-spraying, providing anti-malaria medicine to pregnant women and delivering cutting edge drugs to people living with the disease.
After his remarks, Bush took a moment to showcase a few dance moves. Watch it:
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