Malaria kills nearly twice as many people than previously thought, but deaths declining rapidly
Posted on: February 1st, 2012 by News - Children Youth
Malaria is killing more people worldwide than previously thought -- 1.2 million -- but the number of deaths has fallen rapidly as efforts to combat the disease have ramped up, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. IHME researchers say that deaths from malaria have been missed by previous studies because of the assumption that the disease mainly kills children under age five.
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