Malaria kills more than 1.2 million people a year, nearly 50 percent more than previously thought, and inflicts a high toll among adults and older children and not just toddlers, a new investigation says.
A mother and her child sit on a bed covered with a mosquito net near Bagamoyo, 70 kms north of Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam, in 2009. Malaria kills more than 1.2 million people a year, nearly 50 percent more than previously thought, and inflicts a high toll among adults and older children and not just toddlers, a new investigation says.
But there is also good news: deaths from the mosquito-borne disease have in fact been falling sharply thanks to access to better drugs and insecticide-treated nets.
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- Writer: AFP News agency
- Position: Agence France-Presse
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