Malaria Market Analysis And Forecast 2027
Malaria is a potentially life-threatening disease caused by Plasmodium parasites, which are transmitted to humans through the bites of infected female Anopheles spp mosquitoes. For over 2,500 years, fevers, a hallmark symptom of malaria, were attributed to miasmas (foul stenches or vapors) rising from nearby swamps. Scientific studies of malaria became possible only after Charles Louis Alphonse Laverans discovery of the causative parasite in 1880 and the subsequent incrimination of mosquitoes as the vectors-first for avian malaria by Ronald Ross in 1897, and then for human malaria by the Italian scientist Grassi and his colleagues-between 1898 and 1900. Although the disease is preventable and curable if promptly treated, in 2016 there were 216,000,000 annual cases of malaria in 91 countries, along with 445,000 deaths associated with malaria, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). These mortality number represent a notable improvement from 2000, when malaria mortality s...