Egypt has been certified malaria-free by the World Health Organization (WHO)
It said Egypt was the third country to be certified in the WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Region, following the United Arab Emirates and Morocco. But the WHO said the certification was only “the beginning of a new phase”, urging Egypt to be on the alert to preserve its malaria-free status.
Egyptian authorities launched their first efforts to stamp out the deadly mosquito-borne infectious disease nearly 100 years.
Certification is granted when a country proves that the transmission chain is interrupted for at least the previous three consecutive years.
Malaria kills at least 600,000 people every year, nearly all of them in Africa.
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