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Malaria progress is stalling out, World Health Organization warns

By Robert King
Published November 19, 2018 3:49pm ET
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Malaria progress is stalling out, World Health Organization warns
An Indian health worker fumigates an area to prevent the spread of mosquito-borne diseases in Allahabad, India, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. More than 200 million people live in impoverished Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state. Thousands of people suffer from encephalitis, malaria, typhoid and other mosquito-borne diseases each year during the summer monsoon. | (Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP)

The number of malaria cases around the world has plateaued after several years of steady decline, leading the World Health Organization to call for a new global response to the deadly disease.

The WHO released a report on Monday finding an estimated 219 million worldwide cases of malaria in 2017, compared to 217 million in 2016, and concluding that progress is stalling worldwide.

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