Guest: Dr. Momar N’Dao (laboratory director of the National Reference Centre for Parasitology and a medical researcher at the MUHC)
April 27, 2009
Last Friday (April 24) was World Malaria Day, so what better time to invite Dr. Momar N’Dao, the MUHC’s Malaria expert into the studio. On last week’s show we announced that around 800,000 people die of Malaria every year, but according to some sources that figure could be as high as 3 million. About 90% of malaria deaths occur in Sub-Saharan Africa, and according to the World Health Organization (WHO), a child dies of malaria every 30 seconds.
This disease is a global killer, but what is it, how does it spread, and what’s being done to combat it? Dr. N’Dao tells all and also debunks a few medical myths about malaria along the way.
As always, our guest interviews follow the World News In Three Medical Minutes – a regular feature on Health Matters where we summarize the cutting edge medical stories making headlines around the world.
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