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Global warming has made mosquito-borne diseases possible in more countries with unprepared public health systems.

The UK Health Security Agency has issued an alert for a tropical disease which holidaymakers have been returning to the UK infected with. Malaria cases have seen a sharp rise over the last 12 months

The fight against malaria is at a pivotal point. In recent years, the progress we have made against this disease has ground to a halt, particularly in countries that carry a high burden of the disease.

As Alice and the Red Queen run towards a chessboard in Lewis Carroll’s childhood classic, the wind whistling in their ears, the little girl makes a curious discovery: despite running very fast for a very long time, she hasn’t actually moved.

We have new tools, but it is the health workers on the frontline who make the difference against malaria.

A major landmark study to be published by The Lancet reveals that global immunization efforts have saved an estimated 154 million lives – or the equivalent of 6 lives every minute of every year – over the past 50 years.

Returning from a tropical holiday should come with a suntan and sense of relaxation – not a tropical disease. However, the number of British travellers catching malaria abroad is rising, and scientists are warning it could get worse.

This year’s World Malaria Day comes at a time when scientists are making huge strides in the fight against the disease. Two malaria vaccines will be introduced across Africa this year.

Climate shifts affect malaria transmission, especially in monsoon and pre-monsoon seasons from June to November.

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