Malaria - the good news and the bad news
If any disease swept the northern hemisphere creating 243 million cases and causing 863,000 deaths in one year, the panic would be on a scale far superior to the hysteria over Influenza A H1N1. Yet because 90 per cent of the malaria cases are in Africa, the disease goes largely unreported in media circles. There is some good news?but also warnings of a ?global catastrophe? caused by a new multi-resistant variant.
According to the World Health Organization, in 2008, 243 million cases of malaria caused 863,000 deaths, 90 per cent of these in Africa. One African child dies of malaria every thirty seconds
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Good news
However, there is good news. According to the 2009 World Malaria Report, produced by the WHO, increased funding to fight the disease caused by the female Anopheles mosquito has started to show dramatic results.
Worrying development
However, not all is rosy. A variant form of Malaria has been identified in Cambodia, resistant to treatment by artemisinin. Scientists from the WHO declared recently that this variant must be contained otherwise a ?global catastrophe? could take place.
If any disease swept the northern hemisphere creating 243 million cases and causing 863,000 deaths in one year, the panic would be on a scale far superior to the hysteria over Influenza A H1N1. Yet because 90 per cent of the malaria cases are in Africa, the disease goes largely unreported in media circles. There is some good news?but also warnings of a ?global catastrophe? caused by a new multi-resistant variant.
According to the World Health Organization, in 2008, 243 million cases of malaria caused 863,000 deaths, 90 per cent of these in Africa. One African child dies of malaria every thirty seconds
MORE: http://english.pravda.ru/science/health/16-12-2009/111191-malariagoodnews-0
Good news
However, there is good news. According to the 2009 World Malaria Report, produced by the WHO, increased funding to fight the disease caused by the female Anopheles mosquito has started to show dramatic results.
Worrying development
However, not all is rosy. A variant form of Malaria has been identified in Cambodia, resistant to treatment by artemisinin. Scientists from the WHO declared recently that this variant must be contained otherwise a ?global catastrophe? could take place.