Sources: World Health Organization, Wellcome Trust
MALARIA: A STATISTICAL INDEX
MALARIA: A STATISTICAL INDEX Date: May 12, 1997 Number of clinical cases per year: 300 million to 500 million Number of deaths per year: 1.5 million to 2.7 million, about 4 percent to 5 percent of all fatalities Rank among major infectious diseases in mortality rates: 3rd (after pneumococcal acute respiratory infections and tuberculosis) Occurrence: 90 percent of all cases in sub-Saharan Africa; two-thirds of remaining cases in six countries: India, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Vi
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