{"id":154353,"date":"2025-12-04T20:36:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/malaria-deaths-and-cases-surge-in-2024-report"},"modified":"2025-12-04T22:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:01:14","slug":"malaria-deaths-and-cases-surge-in-2024-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/malaria-deaths-and-cases-surge-in-2024-report","title":{"rendered":"Malaria Deaths and Cases Surge in 2024 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>Malaria killed around 610,000 people in 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the fatalities occured in sub-Saharan Africa, with children constituting the majority of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>Case numbers also went up from 273 million to an estimated 282 million, according to the WHO\u2019s annual malaria report.<\/p>\n<p>The agency cited rising drug resistance, climate change and funding cuts as some of the contributing factors.<\/p>\n<p>It warned that the progress achieved in the early 2000s was at risk of being rolled back. Ethiopia, Madagascar and Yemen have especially seen a surge in cases.<\/p>\n<p>Malaria is caused by a parasite that spreads through mosquito bites.<\/p>\n<p>The medical battle against it has ebbed and flowed, as new drugs come along, but the parasite gradually develops the ability to resist them.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of this century, for example, resistance to the drug chloroquine was widespread and malaria killed more than 1.8 million people per year.<\/p>\n<p>But then came a class of drugs known as artemisinins, which helped drive a dramatic decline in global malaria death rates. Artemisinin-based compounds remain the first-line treatment in most cases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Kenya<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. Malaria killed around 610,000 people in 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. Most of the fatalities occured in sub-Saharan Africa, with children constituting the majority of the victims. Case numbers also went up from 273 million to an estimated 282 million, according to the WHO\u2019s annual malaria report. 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