Egypt declared malaria-free after 100-year effort
(www.bbc.com)
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from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 21 Oct 09:36
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Egypt has been certified malaria-free by the World Health Organization (WHO) - an achievement hailed by the UN public health agency as “truly historic”.
“Malaria is as old as Egyptian civilization itself, but the disease that plagued pharaohs now belongs to its history," said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Egyptian authorities launched their first efforts to stamp out the deadly mosquito-borne infectious disease nearly 100 years.
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The curse of the pharaoh shall never come again!
Amazing for Egypt. Wow.
So the mosquitoes just agreed not to cross the border 🦟