This infographic reveals the world's deadliest animals — and it's not even close. ... Mosquitoes carry terrible diseases, including malaria (which kills more than 600,000 people every year); ...

Infographic: Fighting Malaria Drug Resistance. The parasite that causes malaria has evolved to evade many of the drugs that researchers have developed to fight the tropical disease. Natalie Slivinski.

Malaria can also spread through blood transfusions, organ transplants, unsafe needle-sharing practices, and from mother to fetus. In the US, before the Covid-19 pandemic, there were about 2,000 ...

Malaria deaths declined steadily between 2000 and 2019, from 864,000 to 576,000. They rose during the pandemic, and an estimated 608,000 people died of the disease last year, mainly young children.

More than 6.1 million malaria cases, and 1,038 deaths, have been recorded in the country this year through the end of September, compared with 4.5 million cases, and 469 deaths, for all of 2023.

GOAL 6: COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHER DISEASES Target 6.A: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS. New HIV infections fell by approximately 40 per cent between 2000 ...