WHO: 665 Thousand People Died Due to MalariaBern - The World Health Organization, World Health Organization (WHO) says as many as 665 thousand people die due to malaria in 2010. Of this amount, as much as 86 percent are children under five years old.
As quoted by AFP on Wednesday (14.12.2011), the rate decreased by 5 percent compared to the year 2009.
Of the total deaths, Africa accounted for 91 percent and 81 percent from 216 million cases of malaria worldwide in 2010.
In the annual World Malaria Report 2011, WHO praised it as a 'major achievement' because that number has decreased as much as 26 percent of deaths in 2000. While the figure...