Mosquito Patrol
Nigeria carries the world's heaviest malaria burden. In Mosquito Patrol, pupils spend one day and night protecting a family: clearing breeding sites, checking the nets, guarding the house through the night, and making the right choices when someone has a fever.
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Quick facts
- Subject
- Health education: malaria prevention
- Levels
- Junior Patrol (Primary 3–6), Senior Patrol (JSS 1–3)
- Missions
- 4 missions and a bonus quiz
- Play time
- 2–4 minutes per mission, about 15 in total
- Help
- Read-aloud for every instruction
- Cost
- Free forever · No sign-up · No ads
How to play: one day on patrol
- ☀️ Water Watch (morning): search the family compound for standing water where mosquitoes lay eggs, such as a blocked gutter, footprints, tyre tracks or an old tyre. Choose the right fix for each before sunset. Some things are already safe, so look carefully.
- 🌇 Net Check (evening): spot what's wrong in each bedroom scene, like a hole, a net that isn't tucked in, or a child sleeping outside the net, and choose the fix.
- 🌙 Night Shift (9 pm to 6 am): keep everyone protected through the night. Close nets that get kicked open, shut the screen door and bring Papa inside. Malaria mosquitoes bite most around midnight and before dawn, and any breeding sites you missed in the morning bring more mosquitoes.
- 🌅 Fever Choices (next morning): Ada has a fever. Help Mama choose a malaria test, finish every dose, understand a negative test, and spot the danger signs that mean go to a health facility now.
- ⭐ Myth or Fact (bonus): does sun, palm oil or mango cause malaria? Sort common beliefs from the facts.
Each mission earns up to three stars. Finish all four to become a Patrol Captain. Progress is saved on your device only.
What players learn
- Malaria is caused by a parasite spread by the bite of an infected mosquito, not by sun, food or tiredness.
- Sleeping under an insecticide-treated net every night is one of the best ways to prevent it. Tuck the net in, mend holes, and dry it in the shade.
- Clearing standing water around the home means fewer mosquitoes.
- Someone with a fever should get a malaria test the same day, and finish all the medicine a health worker gives.
- Fits, very sleepy, unable to drink or vomiting everything: go to a health facility now.
Senior Patrol adds: the mosquito life cycle, which mosquitoes breed where (malaria mosquitoes favour small sunny puddles, while tyres and containers mostly breed the mosquitoes that spread dengue and yellow fever), how to tell malaria mosquitoes apart, and extra protection for pregnant women, babies and young children.
For teachers and parents
Mosquito Patrol supports health and disease-prevention topics in Primary Basic Science and Technology, JSS Basic Science, and Physical and Health Education. A full playthrough fits in one lesson with time for discussion. On a projector, let the class vote on each answer. At home, children can play with younger brothers and sisters, then check the family's nets together.
Mosquito Patrol supports UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 (Quality Education) and SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being).
A note on health information
This game teaches general facts about malaria. It does not diagnose illness, name medicines or give doses. If someone is ill, see a health worker. The content is based on guidance from the World Health Organization and Nigeria's National Malaria Elimination Programme, and on published research on Nigerian mosquitoes.