Algeria Declared Malaria Free By WHO

[RAMROD 117,142]

Algeria – the nation where malaria was discovered – is officially free of malaria, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, making it the third African country to eliminate one of the world’s leading killer diseases.

With no recorded cases of malaria in three consecutive years, Argentina was also declared malaria-free – the second country in the Americas after Paraguay in 45 years to wipe out the disease, which kills more than 400,000 people a year.

Although WHO has declared 38 countries malaria-free since 1955, the fight against malaria has stalled as malaria-carrying mosquitoes have become resistant to drugs and insecticides in bednets that protect people from being bitten while sleeping.

Algeria is the third African nation to become malaria free, after Mauritius in 1973 and Morocco in 2010, which brings economic benefits, said Abdourahmane Diallo, head of the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership to End Malaria.

Malaria-free status provides external economic benefits … enabling them to free up resources to address other health and development priorities and improve worker productivity and school attendance.

 

 

Full article at Source:

https://www.africanews.com/2019/05/23/the-world-health-organization-declares-algeria-free-of-deadly-malaria-disease/

 

 

That is good news

[Aleks 3,946]

That thread title is funny for some reason 

Ot : good to see we’re finding cures for these shitty a$$ diseases

[hamster11 537]

 

Such great news. Still remember when I was a kid and Malaria was a huge issue in South East Asia.