Health Ministry asks everybody to take a pledge to beat malaria on World Malaria Day
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25th Apr, 2020
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- World Malaria Day, marked each year on 25 April, is an occasion to highlight the need for continued investment and sustained political commitment for malaria prevention and control.
- Theme for World Malaria Day 2020: Zero malaria starts with me
- Malaria is transmitted by the bite of infected female Anopheles Mosquito.
- These parasites belong to the Plasmodium genus and cause malaria, a disease that is one of the leading causes of death in children aged below five years.
- This is particularly worrying for a country like India, which reportedly has the fourth highest incidence of malaria in the world.
