Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. It is preventable and curable.

Science journal says 14-year-old Hunga Ram Kashyap of Bastar the first in India to carry all four types of parasites; a medical anomaly, he is currently healthy.

A 4-year-old girl has died of malaria in Italy, where the disease is thought to have been wiped out. Troubled health officials are looking for answers.

The WHO European Region is marking an important step o­n the road from malaria control to malaria elimination, and then o­n to maintaining malaria-free status, with the launch of The Ashgabat Statement: Preventing the re-establishment of malaria transmission in the WHO European Region. The Statement is being formally presented o­n 4 September in Moscow, Russian Federation.

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