Clinical Progress Malaria Epidemiology

Recent reports of the World Health Organization have shown that malaria as an indigenous disease has disappeared from Europe and from the U.S.A., from most of the U.S.S.R., from Israel, Lebanon, large parts of India, from Singapore, Hong-Kong, Taiwan, South Africa, Australia, Chile, most of Argentina and Venezuela, most of the islands of the Caribbean, and from Mauritius. Nevertheless, the whole of tropical Africa, parts of North Africa and Central America, many countries of South America, some areas of the Middle East, and most of the countries of south-east Asia and of the south-west Pacific are still malarious. Thus, despite immense gains from malaria eradication campaigns, very large parts of the world are still sources and reservoirs of plasmodial infection.'