Malaria kills twice as much as previously thought
February 03, 2012 16:45
Research by the highly respected Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, based in Seattle, and published in the Lancet medical journal, posits that malaria kills twice as many people are previously thought, says the Guardian newspaper.
The paper says that Dr Christopher Murray and colleagues systematically collected data on deaths from all over the world over a 30-year period, from 1980 to 2010, using new methodologies and inventive ways of measuring mortality in countries where deaths are not conventionally recorded.
Among other myths, the paper says the study demolishes conventional thinking on malaria '" that almost all the deaths are in babies and small children under the age of five. The study found that 42 per cent were in older children and adults.
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