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Ghana: Eradicating Malaria and the Search for New Tools
July 3, 2008
By Phyllis D. Osabutey
Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that causes over 2.7 million deaths per year according to estimates by the World Health Organization. It is also a potentially fatal blood disease caused by a parasite that is transmitted to human and animal hosts by the Anopheles mosquito.
This disease has been a burden to mankind, causing between one and three million deaths each year, worldwide. Majority of these deaths occur among young children and about 850,000 under five children dying annually from the disease while ninety four percent (94 percent) of these deaths occur in Africa.
Experts say although the disease is a global public health problem and endemic in more than ninety countries, its main impact is in sub-Saharan Africa, killing one in twenty children before age five, as death occurs every thirty seconds.
© 2008 AllAfrica.com
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category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 3 July 2008
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