Question: Which country has been recently declared malaria-free by the World Health Organization?
(a) Burkina Faso
(b) Ghana
(c) Tanzania
(d) El Salvador
Answer: (d)
Related facts:
- The World Health Organization has declared El Salvador a malaria-free country.
- It is the first country in Central America to be certified malaria-free.
- A country is certified malaria-free by WHO if there has been no indigenous transmission of the disease nationwide for the previous three consecutive years.
- El Salvador hasn’t had a malaria outbreak since 1996 and has reported no indigenous cases since 2017.
- In 1990, the country had 9,000 cases per year, a figure that declined to 26 by 2010.
By-Amar Mani Upadhyay