National Malaria Week in South Africa
National Malaria Week in South Africa is held on November 5. This event in the first decade of the month November is annual. 
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Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. It is preventable and curable.
90% of the cases in 2016 were in Africa (194 000), followed by the South-East Asia Region (7%) and the Eastern Mediterranean Region (2%).
After the discovery in the 1890s that malaria was caused by a parasite transmitted by anopheline mosquitoes, the next report on malaria in SA was by Hill and Haydon on the 1904/05 malaria epidemic in Natal.
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