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The health dept is focusing primarily on controlling the spread of malaria within a three-kilometre radius surrounding the affected areas.
DMO has urged people of Ponnani, who contracted fever within a month, to undergo a blood check.
The cases were found among migrant workers from Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Jharkhand as well as in a Malayali who returned from Africa.
Symptoms of malaria range from fever, chills, and headache to fatigue, confusion, seizures, and difficulty in breathing.
Cameroon is working with 20 other African countries to help them get the vaccine and those countries will hopefully immunise more than 6 million children through 2025.
Malaria is a devastating mosquito-borne disease that is prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America, causing fever, fatigue, headaches and chills.
Since 2019, 2.3 million doses of Mosquirix have been administered to infants in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi in a large-scale pilot programme coordinated by the WHO.
The onset of monsoon is likely to fester a plenitude of diseases in Kerala including dengue, malaria, and leptospirosis, or rat fever.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the multiple crises it has sparked, a growing number of countries are approaching and achieving malaria elimination, the UN chief said.
Union Health Minister chaired a high-level review meeting on prevention and control of malaria, dengue and chikungunya in Delhi through video conferencing.
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