Africa: What Africa Still Needs to Do to Eliminate Malaria

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Malaria is one of the oldest and deadliest infectious diseases affecting man. It is an ancient and modern disease - descriptions of illnesses similar to malaria are found in ancient texts from China, India, the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

Malaria parasites have co-evolved - which involves genetic changes and adaptation - with people as their hosts over a period of four thousand years.

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