Malaria has been infecting humans for tens of thousands of years, but efforts are on track to stop it from killing people within four.
It was a bold pronouncement Monday on World Malaria Day, given that 780,000 people died from the disease in 2009, but the United Nations is convinced the target can be met, and breakthroughs in genetic research – one of the most important of which came from Canadian scientists – are offering fresh cause for the optimism.
It was a bold pronouncement Monday on World Malaria Day, given that 780,000 people died from the disease in 2009, but the United Nations is convinced the target can be met, and breakthroughs in genetic research – one of the most important of which came from Canadian scientists – are offering fresh cause for the optimism.
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