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...World Health Organization (WHO) has cut its global estimate of yearly malaria cases by more than 100 million, according to a report released Thursday by the health agency. Almost all of that downward revision was attributable to updated surveillance numbers - mostly in Asia, and particularly in India - rather than a measurable reduction of actual malaria cases, agency staff said...
...impact of malaria, however, is still massive. "Whether it's 200 million or 500 million [cases], that's a lot of infections with a big health burden and a big economic burden," says Bernard Nahlen, deputy coordinator of the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative - especially, he says, "for something that is treatable and to a large extent preventable. If your child's life can be saved by treatment for 50 cents, you should treat...
...last World Malaria Report in 2005, tallied the global incidence rate at between 350 million and 500 million new cases of malaria per year. The current report downgrades that figure to 247 million. Likewise, where the last report claimed that the disease kills "more than 1 million" people each year, the 2008 update, which is based on 2006 data (the most recent numbers available), suggests that figure is now closer...
...Weller received his M.D. from Harvard and began clinical training at the Harvard-affiliated Children’s Hospital Boston. But his work was interrupted two years later by World War II, when Weller shipped off to a research post in Puerto Rico that was responsible for malaria control of Caribbean bases. During his 32 months there, he headed the bacteriology, virology, and parasitology department...
These workers also attend to women in labor who need urgent transport to a delivery room, individuals too weakened by cholera to get to a clinic, children with malaria and many others. They do this with one year of on-the-job training that builds on at least some secondary education. That basic training is enough to save lives in vast numbers...