In the first quarter of 2025, Bangladesh reported only 641 malaria cases and one death – a dramatic fall from the 13,099 cases and six deaths recorded in 2024, and a far cry from the 84,690 cases and 154 fatalities seen in 2008 at the height of the country’s malaria burden.
The UN health agency has launched its plan to prevent a hitherto unfamiliar virus-caused pandemic from Arbovirus strain that causes life-threatening mosquito-borne illnesses, such...