Malaria: A disease out of control? Kian 9C2
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t’s official. Malaria has now been named the second most impactful disease after tuberculosis, affecting millions, or even billions, of innocent people. This deadly disease kills around one million people every year and there are few signs of major improvement
in the most impacted regions. These include central and west Africa as well as south-east Asia. However, there has been a significant decline in cases in other regions, primarily due to anti-malarial therapies and medications.
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Malaria has ravaged countries across central Africa, with cases in Nigeria (25%), the Democratic Republic of Congo (11%), Mozambique (5%) and Uganda (4%), accounting for nearly half of all malaria cases worldwide in 2011. This just goes to show how hard-hit
