{"id":10777,"date":"2016-04-21T16:13:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T16:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=10777"},"modified":"2016-04-21T16:13:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T16:13:58","slug":"europe-declared-malaria-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/europe-declared-malaria-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe declared malaria-free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Recently the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) has declared which of the following region as malaria free region in the world?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) South America<br \/>\n(b) Europe<br \/>\n(c) South- East Asia<br \/>\n(d) United States Of America<br \/>\n<strong>Ans (b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On 20 April 2016 Europe has been declared as malaria free region by the World Health Organization (W.H.O.).<\/li>\n<li>According to the World Health Organization, (WHO), the number of malaria cases in Europe dropped from almost 91,000 in 1995 to zero last year.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a significant and symbolic achievement because Europe is the first region to eradicate the disease as part of a new UN-led strategy to wipe out malaria globally.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking ahead of World Malaria Day 2016 (on Monday, 25 April), WHO&#8217;s Dr Nedret Emiroglu warned that the continent will remain vulnerable until the disease is beaten globally.<\/li>\n<li>According to the latest estimates from WHO, there were 214 million new cases of malaria worldwide in 2015 and there were an estimated 438 000 malaria deaths worldwide in 2015.<\/li>\n<li>It may be recalled that On 12 Feb. 2016 J P Nadda, Union Minister for Health &amp; Family Welfare, launched the National Framework for Malaria Elimination\u00a0(NFME) 2016-2030, which outlines India\u2019s strategy for elimination of the disease by 2030.<\/li>\n<li>Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites. The parasites are spread to people through the bites of infected female Anopheles\u00a0mosquitoes, called &#8220;malaria vectors.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Malaria is preventable and curable, and increased efforts can dramatically reduce the malaria burden in many places.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.euro.who.int\/en\/media-centre\/sections\/press-releases\/2016\/04\/from-over-90-000-cases-to-zero-in-two-decades-the-european-region-is-malaria-free\">http:\/\/www.euro.who.int\/en\/media-centre\/sections\/press-releases\/2016\/04\/from-over-90-000-cases-to-zero-in-two-decades-the-european-region-is-malaria-free<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unmultimedia.org\/radio\/english\/2016\/04\/europe-declared-malaria-free-but-still-vulnerable\/#.VxixsEx97IV\">http:\/\/www.unmultimedia.org\/radio\/english\/2016\/04\/europe-declared-malaria-free-but-still-vulnerable\/#.VxixsEx97IV<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/campaigns\/malaria-day\/2016\/en\/\">http:\/\/www.who.int\/campaigns\/malaria-day\/2016\/en\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) has declared which of the following region as malaria free region in the world? (a) South America (b) Europe (c) South- East Asia (d) United States Of America Ans (b) Related facts: On 20 April 2016 Europe has been declared as malaria free region by the World Health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}