Malaria Facts
1. 1,337 cases of malaria, including 8 deaths, were reported for 2002 in the United States.
2. 41% of the world's population live in areas where malaria is transmitted.
3. Each year 350–500 million cases of malaria occur worldwide, and over one million people die, most of them young children in Africa.
4. In areas of Africa with high malaria transmission, an estimated 990,000 people died of malaria in 1995.
5. In 2002, malaria was the #4 cause of death in children in developing countries.
6. In Malawi in 2001, malaria accounted for 22% of all hospital deaths. admissions, 26% of all outpatient visits, and 28% of all hospital.
7. Four Nobel prizes have been awarded for work Related with malaria, to Sir Ronald Ross (1902), Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1907), Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1927) and Paul Hermann Muller (1948).
8. The average cost for life-saving treatments of malaria are estimated to be US$0.13 for chloroquine, US$0.14 for sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, and US$2.68 for a 7-day course of quinine.
9. Most causes of malaria are caused by a bite from a mosquito but there are other ways malaria can spread. Malaria can be spread in blood and organ transfers and contaminated needles.
10. Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
11. Every 30 seconds, a child dies of malaria.
