WHO declares Egypt malaria-free after 100-year effort

Egypt has officially been declared free of malaria by the World Health Organization (WHO), a major success for the country. The WHO called this achievement “truly historic.”

Malaria has been a problem in Egypt for thousands of years, but now the disease is part of the past. WHO chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “Malaria is as old as Egyptian civilization, but it no longer exists in the country.”

Egypt started working to get rid…