{"id":116752,"date":"2024-10-21T16:50:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T09:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116752"},"modified":"2024-10-21T16:50:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T09:50:53","slug":"egypt-declared-malaria-free-by-world-health-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116752","title":{"rendered":"Egypt declared malaria-free by World Health Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Egypt has been certified malaria-free by the World Health Organization (WHO) &#8211; an achievement hailed by the UN public health agency as &#8220;truly historic&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">\u201cMalaria is as old as Egyptian civilization itself, but the disease that plagued pharaohs now belongs to its history,&#8221; said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Egyptian authorities launched their first efforts to stamp out the deadly mosquito-borne infectious disease nearly 100 years.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Certification is granted when a country proves that the transmission chain is interrupted for at least the previous three consecutive years. Malaria kills at least 600,000 people every year, nearly all of them in Africa.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">In a statement on Sunday, the WHO praised &#8220;the Egyptian government and people&#8221; for their efforts to &#8220;end a disease that has been present in the country since ancient times&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">It said Egypt was the third country to be certified in the WHO&#8217;s Eastern Mediterranean Region, following the United Arab Emirates and Morocco.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Globally, 44 countries and one territory have reached this milestone.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">But the WHO said the certification was only &#8220;the beginning of a new phase&#8221;, urging Egypt to be on the alert to preserve its malaria-free status.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">To get the WHO certification, a country must demonstrate the capacity to prevent the re-establishment of transmission.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The UN public health agency said first efforts to limit human-mosquito contact in Egypt began in the 1920s when it banned rice cultivation and agricultural crops near homes.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Malaria is caused by a complex parasite which is spread by mosquito bites.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Vaccines are now being used in some places &#8211; but monitoring the disease and avoiding mosquito bites are the most effective ways to prevent malaria.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cm2yl8pjgn2o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt has been certified malaria-free by the World Health Organization (WHO) &#8211; an achievement hailed by the UN public health agency as &#8220;truly historic&#8221;. \u201cMalaria is as old as Egyptian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116752\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}