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The World Health Organization (WHO) has certified Egypt as malaria-free, marking a significant public health milestone for a country with more than 100 million inhabitants.<\/p>\n
The achievement follows a nearly 100-year effort by the North African country to end a disease that has been present in there since ancient times.<\/p>\n
ALSO READ: Hope for ‘malaria-free world’ as WHO approves new vaccine<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n “Malaria is as old as Egyptian civilization itself, but the disease that plagued pharaohs now belongs to its…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The World Health Organization (WHO) has certified Egypt as malaria-free, marking a significant public health milestone for a country with more than 100 million inhabitants. The achievement follows a nearly 100-year effort by the North African country to end a disease that has been present in there since ancient times. ALSO READ: Hope for ‘malaria-free […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":183027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00570508:32a6666cd1a758b4135e90afd30bc0e2:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[14587,258,256,7030,4697,415,13203,22412,257,254],"class_list":["post-183026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-achievement","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-declares","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-historic","tag-malariafree","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00570508:32a6666cd1a758b4135e90afd30bc0e2:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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