{"id":7937,"date":"2024-10-22T19:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7937"},"modified":"2024-10-22T19:00:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T00:00:18","slug":"infecting-pharaohs-4000-years-ago-egypt-has-finally-been-declared-malaria-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/10\/22\/infecting-pharaohs-4000-years-ago-egypt-has-finally-been-declared-malaria-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Infecting Pharaohs 4,000 years ago, Egypt Has Finally Been Declared Malaria-Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/infecting-pharaohs-4000-years-ago-egypt-has-finally-been-declared-malaria-free\/\">Good News Network<\/a> Egypt, one of the world\u2019s 15 most populous nations, has been certified malaria-free after a \u2018pharaonic\u2019 effort that began 100 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Killing nearly 600,000 people every year, almost all of whom dwell in Africa, the malarial transmission chain has been interrupted for three years in a row, proving that the Egyptian health authorities can ensure it remains a negligent public health burden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMalaria is as old as Egyptian civilization itself, but the disease that plagued pharaohs now belongs to its history,\u201d said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, to mark the occasion. The WHO\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/20-10-2024-egypt-is-certified-malaria-free-by-who\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">praised<\/a>\u00a0\u201cthe Egyptian government and people\u201d for their efforts to \u201cend a disease that has been present in the country since ancient times,\u201d and added that Egypt and her 114 million inhabitants were now the second country declared malaria-free in the WHO\u2019s Eastern Mediterranean region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/infecting-pharaohs-4000-years-ago-egypt-has-finally-been-declared-malaria-free\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\" msp  Sa GQUY\"> msp  Sa GQUY<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good News Network Egypt, one of the world\u2019s 15 most populous nations, has been certified malaria-free after a \u2018pharaonic\u2019 effort that began 100 years ago. Killing nearly 600,000 people every year, almost all of whom dwell in Africa, the malarial transmission chain has been interrupted for three years in a row, proving that the Egyptian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malaria","category-mosquito-bourne-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7938,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937\/revisions\/7938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}