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2023–2024 Brazil Oropouche fever: 2 [325] [326] [327] 2024 American dengue epidemic: 2024–present: Latin America and the Caribbean: Dengue virus: 8,186 [328] 2024 Kwango province malaria outbreak: 2024–present: Democratic Republic of the Congo: Malaria: 143 [329] HMPV outbreak in East Asia: 2024–present: East Asia: Human metapneumovirus ...
According to the WHO's World Malaria Report 2015, the global mortality rate for malaria fell by 60% between 2000 and 2015. The WHO targeted a further 90% reduction between 2015 and 2030, [64] with a 40% reduction and eradication in 10 countries by 2020. [65] However, the 2020 goal was missed with a slight increase in cases compared to 2015. [66]
There are about 1300–1500 malaria cases per year in ... Malaria, was certified in January 2024, ... 2020 noted a correlation between malaria-endemic ...
2023–2024 Oropouche virus disease outbreak; 2023—2024 cholera outbreak in South Africa; 2024 dengue outbreak in Latin America and the Caribbean; 2024 Gaza Strip polio epidemic; 2024 Kwango province malaria outbreak; 2024 McDonald's E. coli outbreak; 2024 Russian botulism outbreak; 2024 United Kingdom Shigatoxigenic E. coli outbreak
December 10 – Jacques Yves Sebastien Duroseau, 34, a U.S. Marine, is found guilty of smuggling guns from North Carolina to Haiti in 2019 in an attempt to establish himself as Haitian president. [15] December 16 – COVID-19 pandemic: Scientists are flummoxed by Haiti's relatively low number (9,588 confirmed cases) of COVID-19 infections.
27 September – The United Nations reports during the first six months of this year at least 3,661 have been killed in Haiti, including 100 children, amid the ongoing gang violence. [33] 30 September – The United Nations Security Council unanimously votes to extend the Kenyan-led multinational police mission to Haiti until 2 October 2025. [34]
Malaria was not found in the Americas prior to the discovery of the New World by Europeans. There was therefore even less immunity among the native populations than there was among Europeans. [1] Due to their genetics, African slaves had greater immunity to falciparum malaria, and this was one reason why slaves were brought in great numbers ...
According to the World Malaria Report 2020 [2] published by the World Health Organization, despite tremendous progress in reducing malaria around the world, since 2015 this progress has slowed, stalling in the last three years. Current interventions, such as drug treatments, bed nets and insecticide spraying, have helped to lower the burden of ...