WHO Declares Suriname Free Of Malaria

Healio (7/1, Feller) reports the WHO announced that Suriname is the first country in the Amazon region and the 12th country in the Americas to be declared free of malaria. The country, located in northern South America, “has not had an indigenous case of Plasmodium falciparum malaria since 2018 and not had a case of Plasmodium vivax malaria since 2021, according to WHO.” The declaration “is based on 3 consecutive years without a local case of malaria.”