What is malaria?
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Malaria is a globally important parasitic infectious disease transmitted between humans by mosquitoes.
In 2016, 216 million people worldwide were infected and over 400,000 people died from malaria, around 90% of whom were in sub-Saharan Africa; that’s one death every two minutes. This is a traged...
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