DPA
Phnom Penh - Cambodia's leading health official for malaria said Monday the disease killed one-third more people last year than in 2008. Dr Duong Socheat, who heads the national malaria centre, said 279 people died from the mosquito-transmitted disease last year in Cambodia, up from 209.
He said the number infected by the parasite was up 38 per cent from 58,000 to around 80,000.
The figures mark a reversal in the country's trend of declining infections and deaths from malaria since 2000, and increase the risk it will miss its 2015 target for reducing malaria fatalities under its UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG).
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