Nearly 440,000 people worldwide, mainly children younger than 5, died of malaria last year Image Credit: Supplied
The Guardian: Burundi malaria outbreak at epidemic levels as half of population infected
World Health Organization records 1,800 malaria deaths since start of year, almost equalling number of lives claimed by Ebola in DRC
A serious outbreak of malaria in Burundi has reached epidemic proportions, killing almost as many people as the Ebola crisis in the nearby Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The outbreak in the tiny Great Lakes country has infected almost half the total population, killing about 1,800 people since the beginning of the year.
According to figures gathered by the World Health Organisation, almost 6 million cases have been recorded since the first week of January to the end of July, with infections reaching crisis levels in May.
The figures look on course to outstrip the epidemic of 2017, when more 6 million cases were recorded for the whole year.
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Update: 5.7 million cases of malaria recorded in Burundi in 2019; 1800 die (Gulf News/AFP)
WNU Editor: When half of your population has been infected with a disease .... it is an epidemic. Why the government of Burundi has refused to declare an emergency is beyond me.
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Duffy antigen system & Sickle cell mutation.
Mosquitos are one of the largest biological pressure shaping mankind.
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