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World Malaria Day 2022: Progress to eradicate the disease has stalled

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Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly children living in Africa, succumb every year to malaria, an age-old mosquito-borne scourge that worsened during the Covid-19 pandemic. For World Malaria Day on Monday, FRANCE 24's Health Editor Julia Sieger takes a look at this notorious disease and the research surrounding new vaccines.

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