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Egypt has been certified malaria-free by the World Health Organization (WHO) - an achievement hailed by the UN public health agency as "truly historic".

“Malaria is as old as Egyptian civilization itself, but the disease that plagued pharaohs now belongs to its history," said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Egyptian authorities launched their first efforts to stamp out the deadly mosquito-borne infectious disease nearly 100 years.

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[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Amazing for Egypt. Wow.

[-] Stamau123@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

The curse of the pharaoh shall never come again!

[-] d00ery@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

So the mosquitoes just agreed not to cross the border 🦟

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