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Volume 358:2425-2428 June 5, 2008 Number 23 Next

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This past October, at a scientific conference in Seattle, Bill and Melinda Gates issued a challenge that rocked the international health community. The leaders of the world's richest charitable foundation called on scientists and health officials to join in a global effort to eradicate malaria, an infection that kills more than a million people each year, most of them infants and children.

Mention of the big "E word" has sparked a spirited debate about whether eradication will ever be possible, even as enthusiasm and funding build for a global drive to end malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa by focusing on . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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