This year (2016), there has been a renewed focus on children’s health. The WHO has launched a global strategy on health for women, children and adolescents. New challenges keep cropping up as increase in travel and people-to-people contact creates a globalization of microbes. Degrading environment has its own set of problems.
Water storage vessels like bottles, drums and pots should be cleaned and kept covered...
Use mosquito nets. Don't wear clothes that expose your hands and legs and use a mosquito repellent cream.