Zoonotic malaria requires new policy approaches to malaria elimination

Increasing numbers of human zoonotic malaria cases are reported globally. Current malaria control measures cannot eliminate transmission from wildlife reservoirs, leaving many countries with no pathway to malaria elimination certification. New policies are needed to redefine elimination goals and ce...

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Published in:Nature communications Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 5750 - 3
Main Authors: Fornace, Kimberly M., Drakeley, Chris J., Lindblade, Kim A., Jelip, Jenarun, Ahmed, Kamruddin
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 16.09.2023
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Certification
Comment
Disease control
Disease transmission
Humanities and Social Sciences
Malaria
multidisciplinary
Parasites
Pathogens
Public health
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Surveillance
Vector-borne diseases
Wildlife
Zoonoses
ISSN:2041-1723, 2041-1723
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Summary:Increasing numbers of human zoonotic malaria cases are reported globally. Current malaria control measures cannot eliminate transmission from wildlife reservoirs, leaving many countries with no pathway to malaria elimination certification. New policies are needed to redefine elimination goals and certification. WHO guidelines for classification of malaria elimination in a country require that the risk of human infection from zoonotic, as well as nonzoonotic, malaria parasites is negligible. In this Comment, the authors discuss the implications of this policy for countries, such as Malaysia, with no recent reported nonzoonotic cases but ongoing zoonotic transmission.
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ISSN:2041-1723
2041-1723
DOI:10.1038/s41467-023-41546-6