WHO Reports Malaria Cases Increased In 2023

Reuters (12/11, Rigby) says a new World Health Organization report indicates that “there were around 11 million more cases of malaria in 2023 than in 2022, up to an estimated 263 million.” The report points to “another year of negligible progress against the age-old killer. There were 597,000 deaths, a similar total to 2022, the vast majority among African children aged under 5 years old, the WHO said.”