WHO says China free of malaria
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The World Health Organization yesterday granted China a malaria-free certification as a token of celebration of the country鈥檚 successful elimination of the disease after 70 years of its struggles against malaria.
From 30 million malaria cases in the 1940s, China brought down that number over the last decades, to finally achieve no cases in the last four years, the WHO said.
鈥淭oday we congratulate the people of China on ridding the country of malaria,鈥 said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
鈥淭heir success was hard-earned and came only after decades of targeted and sustained action,鈥 he added.
China鈥檚 efforts against malaria started in the 1950s, as the disease was rampant in the southern part of the country, close to other hot spots in mainland Southeast Asia.
The 鈥523 Project,鈥 a research program launched in 1967, allowed Chinese Nobel Prize winner Tu Youyou to discover artemisinin, one of the most effective antimalarial drugs nowadays, according to the WHO.
Over the last two decades, China ramped up its efforts and reduced the number of cases in the 1990s from 117,000 to 5,000 annually by providing staff training, laboratory equipment, antimalarial medicines and new methods to control mosquito propagation.
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