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Nearly One-Third Of All Countries Affected By Malaria On Course To Eliminate Disease, WHO Report Says
"Nearly a third of all countries affected by malaria are on course to eliminate the mosquito-borne disease over the next 10 years, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday ... [i]n a progress report (.pdf) published by the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) partnership at the start of an international Malaria Forum conference in Seattle," Reuters reports (Kelland, 10/17). "The [WHO] has awarded malaria-free certification to three nations in the past four years, according to the report," Agence France-Presse notes, adding, "If current successes in the fight against malaria continue, more than three million lives can be saved by 2015 with the elimination of the disease in eight to 10 countries, RBM said" (10/17).
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