WHO rejects bigger malaria death toll reported by Seattle scientists

There’s a history here. Seattle’s gang of health statisticians at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation routinely challenge the World Health Organization’s numbers, as they did a while ago on maternal mortality. In that case, WHO eventually had to eat crow and accept the Seattle analysis.


The World Health Organization disputes a new study that claims nearly twice as many people are dying of malaria than current estimates. The study, which appears in the British health journal The Lancet, reports 1.24 million people died of malaria in 2010 compared to WHO estimates of 655,000 deaths.

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