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Dispute Over Malaria Figures Highlights Lack Of Certainty In Data In Age Of 'Information Overload'
In this post in TIME World's "Global Spin" blog, TIME's Africa bureau chief Alex Perry examines questions surrounding an Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) study published in the Lancet on Friday that suggests "malaria kills almost twice as many people a year as previously believed," writing, "If correct, at a stroke that overturns medical consensus, makes a nonsense of decades of World Health Organization (WHO) statistics -- the official malaria numbers -- and plunges the current multibillion-dollars anti-malaria campaign, and the push to reach a 2015 deadline for achieving the eight Millennium Development Goals, into grave doubt."
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