China received a certificate of the World Health Organization (WHO) confirming the status of a country “free from malaria”. This is reported on the WHO website.
“An outstanding feat for the country, which in the 1940s annually reported on 30 million cases of the disease in this disease,” the message says
According to the general director of WHO Tedros Adhan Greesus, China achieved success with difficult labor, only after decades of targeted and permanent action. “This announcement China joins the growing number of countries that demonstrate the world that the future free from malaria is a viable goal,” he said.
According to the organization, in the last 30 years, China was the first country of the Western Pacific region of the Pacific, which received such a certificate. In total, 40 countries have a WHO certificate about the absence of malaria, among those who became its owners recently, – Salvador (2021), Argentina (2019) and Uzbekistan (2018).
In May 2020, it was reported that Russian scientists approached the creation of the first domestic drug from malaria. Molecular biologists from Russia and Israel inserted henni genes in the chrysanthemum genome. Halfweed is capable of fighting with malaria, however, it grows only in narrow climatic conditions, which is why it is impossible to get medicine from the plant in the volume necessary for widespread production. New transgenic grade chrysanthemum can produce artemisinine molecules, the most effective means for the destruction of the malaria plasmodium.