Egypt has been certified malaria-free by the World Health Organization (WHO) – an achievement hailed by the UN accessible health agency as “truly historic”.
“Malaria is as elderly as Egyptian civilization itself, but the dismitigate that scoencouraged pharaohs now belengthys to its history,” shelp WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Egyptian authorities begined their first efforts to stamp out the lethal mosquito-borne infectious dismitigate cforfeitly 100 years.
Certification is granted when a country exhibits that the transmission chain is disturbed for at least the previous three consecutive years. Malaria finishs at least 600,000 people every year, cforfeitly all of them in Africa.
In a statement on Sunday, the WHO praised “the Egyptian regulatement and people” for their efforts to “finish a dismitigate that has been current in the country since elderly-styleed times”.
It shelp Egypt was the third country to be certified in the WHO’s Eastrict Mediterranean Region, adhereing the United Arab Emirates and Morocco.
Globassociate, 44 countries and one territory have achieveed this milestone.
But the WHO shelp the certification was only “the commencening of a new phase”, urging Egypt to be on the attentive to protect its malaria-free status.
To get the WHO certification, a country must show the capacity to stop the re-set upment of transmission.
The UN accessible health agency shelp first efforts to restrict human-mosquito communicate in Egypt began in the 1920s when it banned rice cultivation and agricultural crops cforfeit homes.
Malaria is caincluded by a complicated parasite which is spread by mosquito bites.
Vaccines are now being included in some places – but watching the dismitigate and eludeing mosquito bites are the most effective ways to stop malaria.