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Today, Tuesday, the Al-Sabah News newspaper called on Tunisian health authorities to prepare to face the “imminent danger” posed by the spread of malaria in southern Algeria.
The newspaper published an article on its website entitled “After the appearance of malaria in southern Algeria… is Tunisia ready to prevent this “imminent danger”? », in which he underlines in particular that a new health threat threatens western Tunisia. after a terrible spread of malaria which invaded areas… Several in the south of Algeria.
The newspaper adds that although the Algerian authorities have tried to “contain the disease in the media and in the health sector, this is no longer possible after the coincidence of reports appearing in the press reporting the spread of malaria and of its victims, particularly the elderly and children. »
She explained that the spread of the disease “brought the inhabitants of southern Algeria out of silence and transformed their pages on social networks into distress calls”.
Al-Sabah News called on Tunisian health authorities to pay attention to this crisis “to avoid any possible surprises and take measures to prevent this danger.”
The media have been talking for days about the spread of malaria in the southern states of Algeria (including Ain Guezzam and Bordj Badji Mokhtar), in a new appearance of this epidemic, which the World Health Organization had declared ago five years as the country. free from it.
The World Organization estimates that there will be 229 million malaria cases and 409,000 deaths in 2019. The WHO African Region bears a disproportionate share of the global malaria burden. In 2019, 94 percent of malaria cases and deaths were recorded in the region.
Children under five are the most vulnerable to malaria. In 2019, their deaths accounted for about two-thirds of the total number of deaths caused by malaria worldwide.
