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Nature 415, 669 (7 February 2002) | doi:10.1038/415669a
foreword malaria
In any given year, nearly ten per cent of the global population will suffer from malaria — 500 million clinical cases — and more than 1 million will die as a result; a death from malaria every 30 seconds. In Africa, the disease kills one child in twenty before five years of age.
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