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Venezuela fears malaria more than Covid

比起冠狀病毒病 委內瑞拉人更怕得瘧疾

精英翻譯社轉自https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1449258

◎陳成良

Venezuela was the first country to eradicate malaria in 1961 － but the disease, carried by the Anopheles mosquito, has seen an alarming explosion over the last decade.

委內瑞拉在1961年領先全球根除瘧疾，但在過去10年，這種由瘧蚊帶原的疾病疫情爆炸性地反撲，令人擔憂。

"Many people have come down with malaria in the last two months. Some people have had it 15 to 20 times," said Leonardo Vargas, a communal anti-malaria activist.

社區防治瘧疾人士瓦爾加斯說：「過去2個月有好多人得到瘧疾，有些人還得過15到20次。」

The government has not published figures on malaria since 2016, but according to the Venezuelan Society of Public Health NGO － using 2018-2020 World Health Organization data － the country has the highest number of malaria cases in the region.

委國政府自2016年以來便未公布瘧疾病例數，但非政府組織「委內瑞拉公共衛生協會」援引世界衛生組織2018年至2020年的資料指出，委國瘧疾病例數高居該區域之冠。

In 2019 there were 400,000 cases of malaria in Venezuela, or more than half of the combined malaria cases of Brazil, Peru and Colombia, the NGO said.

這個非政府組織表示，2019年委內瑞拉有40萬人染病，是巴西、秘魯與哥倫比亞加總病例數的一半以上。