news.yahoo.com — The World Health Organization halved its estimate of the number of people who get malaria each year, saying Thursday that better measurement techniques had cut the number from 500 million people to 247 million. The U.N. agency, which issued the revised figure in its World Malaria Report 2008, said the new estimate is based on better data for countries outside Africa. WHO left unchanged the figure of malaria deaths. An estimated 881,000 people were killed by malaria in 2006 — most of them were children under 5, the report said.
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