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  • LatAm?s Malaria Cases Wane Except in Nicaragua, Venezuela, Peru

    Source: http://news.co.cr/latams-malaria-cas...la-peru/54145/


    LatAm?s Malaria Cases Wane Except in Nicaragua, Venezuela, Peru
    By The Costa Rica Star ? December 14, 2016


    Geneva, Dec. 13 ? Malaria has retreated in almost all of Latin America.
    Mosquito nets are key in preventing malaria transmission.

    Mosquito nets are key in preventing malaria transmission.

    Costa Rica is listed as free of malaria transmission by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and it, along with several other countries will be certified malaria-free by the World Health Organization (WHO) in coming years.

    The exceptions to this positive trend are Peru, Nicaragua, and, most worrying of all, Venezuela, where cases have tripled in the last five years...
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