Erschienen in:
01.04.2012 | Commentary
Benign Tertian Malaria: How Benign Is It Today?
verfasst von:
Dinesh Yadav, Jagdish Chandra, Ashok Kumar Dutta
Erschienen in:
Indian Journal of Pediatrics
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Ausgabe 4/2012
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Malaria is a disease of global importance and afflicts more than 90 countries and territories in the tropical and subtropical regions. Malaria imposes great socio-economic burden on humanity, and with six other diseases (diarrhea, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, measles, hepatitis B, and pneumonia), accounts for 85% of global infectious disease burden. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates 3.3 billion people at risk, 247 million malaria cases and one million estimated annual malarial mortality worldwide [
1]. Approximately 2.48 million cases are reported annually from South-east Asia, of which 75% cases are contributed by India alone. WHO has reported malaria mortality rate 15000 per year from India; however, a recent study by million death collaborators suggest much higher annual malarial mortality in India (205,000 overall and 55000 in children <14 years age) [
2]. …