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International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(3):704-705; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl078
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Published by Oxford University Press 2006 © The Author 2006; all rights reserved.

Commentary

Commentary: Malaria death rates remain highly pertinent

Tom Smith

Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Socinstrasse 57, PO Box, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland

E-mail: Thomas-A.Smith@unibas.ch

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Scientific papers and media coverage of malaria alike expose us so frequently to figures for the number of child deaths from Plasmodium falciparum in Africa that we become insensitive to the magnitude of the carnage. The numbers are so large that they overwhelm the imagination.

Until recently it was hard to work out where these estimates came from, since there was rarely any explanation of the primary sources or the way in which the data were analysed. However several papers in recent years 1–3 have provided good documentation of their methods, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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