Epidemiologic Analysis of Efforts to Achieve and Sustain Malaria Elimination along the China-Myanmar Border.

Fang Huang,Yan-Wen Cui,Shui-Sen Zhou,Hong Tu,Zhi-Gui Xia,Li Zhang,Hong-Ning Zhou

doi:10.3201/eid2711.204428

Abstract

Malaria cases have dramatically declined in China along the Myanmar border, attributed mainly to adoption of the 1-3-7 surveillance and response approach. No indigenous cases have been reported in China since 2017. Counties in the middle and southern part of the border area have a higher risk for malaria importation and reestablishment after elimination.

Highlights

Malaria cases have dramatically declined in China along the Myanmar border, attributed mainly to adoption of the
Counties in the middle and southern part of the border area have a higher risk for malaria importation and reestablishment after elimination
In 2020, on the basis of successful subnational verification, China submitted an official request to the World Health Organization for certification of national malaria elimination, which requires a country to provide evidence that local malaria transmission has been fully interrupted, that zero indigenous human malaria cases have been reported for >3 consecutive years, and that an adequate program for preventing reestablishment of indigenous transmission is fully functional throughout the country [3]

Summary

Malaria Elimination along the

Malaria cases have dramatically declined in China along the Myanmar border, attributed mainly to adoption of the. No indigenous cases have been reported in China since 2017. Counties in the middle and southern part of the border area have a higher risk for malaria importation and reestablishment after elimination. Malaria cases in China subsequently decreased dramatically, and no indigenous cases have been reported since. In 2020, on the basis of successful subnational verification, China submitted an official request to the World Health Organization for certification of national malaria elimination, which requires a country to provide evidence that local malaria transmission has been fully interrupted, that zero indigenous human malaria cases have been reported for >3 consecutive years, and that an adequate program for preventing reestablishment of indigenous transmission is fully functional throughout the country [3]. Xia); NHC Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biology, Shanghai

World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Tropical

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