Malaria: elimination tale from Yunnan Province of China and new challenges for reintroduction.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Eradication of infectious disease is the sanctified public health and sustainable development goal around the world.

Main body

Three antimalarial barriers were developed to control imported malarial cases, and an effective surveillance strategy known as the "1-3-7 approach" was developed to eliminate malaria from the Chinese population. From 2011 to 2019, 5254 confirmed malaria cases were reported and treated in Yunnan Province, China. Among them, 4566 cases were imported from other countries, and 688 cases were indigenous from 2011 to 2016. Since 2017, no new local malarial case has been reported in China. Thus, malaria has been completely eliminated in Yunnan Province. However, malaria is detected in overseas travellers on a regular basis, such as visitors from

SUBMITTER: Yang HL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8293506 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature