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Malaria outbreak forecast
November 11 , 2020
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- The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) announced that it will start providing Malaria outbreak forecast from next monsoon.
- The department conducted its first study in the city of Nagpur.
- According to the world Malaria report India accounts to 85% of global Malaria burden.
- Also, the National Health portal reports that the majority of malarial cases are from the central and Eastern part of the countries.
- This is mainly because these States have dense forests, tribal areas and hilly regions.
- The states include Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and the North Eastern states such as Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram.
Vaccine
- Malaria vaccine is known as RTS, S.
- It was branded as Mosquirix and approved by the European medicine’s agency in 2015.
- The vaccine is not registered in India.
- Malawi is a first country chosen to roll out the vaccine.
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