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World Service,15 Oct 1999,23 mins

Malaria - the disease that refuses to die out

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Is the eradication of malaria possible? It causes two million deaths in Africa alone and many people in the continent spend large proportions of their income on ways of preventing infection, many proving ineffective. Despite being almost partly eradicated in the 1950s resistance against medication has grown amid growing concern.

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