According to the
Mayo Clinic, some 290 million people are infected with malaria annually and at least 400,000 people die of the disease each year predominantly young children, the elderly and the infirm making it the world’s most pervasive parasitic disease. Symptoms involve ongoing cyclical “attacks chills and shivering followed by fevers followed by chills followed by fevers.
“Safe, effective, affordable vaccines could play a critical role in defeating malaria,” Dr Robert Newman, Director of WHO’s
Global Malaria Program said in 2013. ”Despite all the recent progress countries have made, and despite important innovations in diagnostics, drugs and vector control, the global burden of malaria remains unacceptably high.”
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Four Surprising Ways COVID Changed the World a Year Into the Pandemic
On 3/11/21 at 6:04 AM EST
On March 11, 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak was officially declared to be a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), more than a month after the first case was discovered in the U.S.
The world has been significantly changed over the course of the past year and in a number of ways.
Some of the changes were immediate. Unemployment rose and businesses suffered. But some are yet to be properly felt.
Newsweek has compiled some standout figures. Green recovery
A man walks through a village as steam and smoke rise from the Belchatow coal power station on November 29, 2018 at Rogowiec, Poland. Emissions slowed for a time during the pandemic.