Progress Being Made Against Malaria; More Needs to Be Done

Malaria is an entirely preventable and treatable mosquito-borne illness. At least that's what the World Health Organization claims. WHO statistics show the disease threatens up to 50 percent of the earth's population, and it kills more than a half-million people every year, most of them young children, but despite these grim statistics, progress is being made and lives are being saved.  Public and private funding for the past 10 years has cut deaths from malaria by nearly 50...

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