Presentations ppt, key, pdf logging in or signing up. Malaria reporting and investigation guideline department of health. A deadly new strain of plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria, has arrived in africa, according to an article in the wall street journal 2001. According to the world health organization, there were 225 million cases of malaria worldwide and 781,000 deaths in 2009. Guidelines for the treatment of malaria world health organization. Malaria is a lifethreatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected mosquitoes.
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