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Why do over 1,000,000 people die every year from malaria?

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Over one million people die from malaria each year, mostly children under five years of age, with 90 per cent ... It can result in maternal anaemia and low birth weight - the single greatest risk factor for death during the first months of life. A barrier to development. Malaria hampers children's schooling and social development. read more

The World Health Report 1999 (WHO) states that “during the first half of the 20th century, the world sustained around 2 million deaths from malaria each year,” so for that period alone, there were a hundred million deaths. read more

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