The Worst Epidemics Throughout History

Malaria

Malaria is an epidemic concentrated mostly on South-East Asia, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Western Pacific, and the Americas. Babies, toddlers, pregnant women, and HIV/AIDS patients are all at a higher risk of contracting malaria. Malaria is spread through mosquitos and in 2018, there were an estimated 228 million reported cases and 405,000 deaths from the bug-borne illness.

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