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Egypt declared malaria-free after 100-year effort

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bufferoverflow ◴[21 Oct 24 14:44 UTC] No.41904719[source]▶
Doesn't it take just one tourist with malaria to bring it back?
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1. yaseer ◴[21 Oct 24 14:56 UTC] No.41904887[source]▶
It's not quite like other infectious diseases (e.g. COVID), in that transmission is dependent on mosquitos as a vector.

If they've sufficiently damaged the vector one tourist alone cannot bring it back - the disease vector would also need to come back.