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Malaria Death Toll Disputed
from Nature News
Researchers are questioning results from a high-profile paper suggesting that malaria may kill twice as many people worldwide as previously estimated.
The statistical analysis, published yesterday in the Lancet by researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington in Seattle, nearly doubles the World Health Organization (WHO) estimate of global malaria deaths in 2010, revising the figure upwards from 655,000 to 1.24 million.
But Bob Snow, of the Malaria Public Health & Epidemiology Group at the Centre for Geographic Medicine in Nairobi, Kenya, who was one of the paper's peer reviewers, says that there are considerable weaknesses in the researchers' methodology.
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