Malaria -- India
After 5 long years, malaria is back in the national capital and the number of cases has shot up alarmingly to 113, of which 40 cases were detected this month [June 2017].
The National Institute of Malaria Research (NIMR) has found 2 new species of Anopheles stephensi (urban vector) and Anopheles culicifacies (rural vector) circulating this year [2017].
The parasitic infection was lying dormant after mutating, but it has made a comeback after a gap of 5 years at a time when Delhi is
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