'Malaria will not be eradicated in near future', warns WHO
by Sarah Boseley Health editor from on (#4NS7G)
Three-year review says new vaccines for eradicating disease are only 40% effective
Malaria will not be eradicated in the foreseeable future even though it is achievable and would save millions of lives, according to World Health Organization (WHO) experts following a three-year review.
The WHO remains committed to the "disappearance of every single malaria parasite from the face of the planet", as it has been since the UN organisation was launched in 1948, said Dr Pedro Alonso, the director of its global malaria programme.
Continue reading...