IELTS
JOURNAL
175
READING PASSAGE 3
You are advised to spend about 25 minutes on
Questions 29-42 which
are based on
Reading Passage 3 (next page).
Question 29
From the list below choose the most suitable title for the whole of Reading Passage 3.
Write the appropriate letter
A-D in box 29 on your answer sheet.
A The Growing Incidence of Malaria
B The Worldwide Spread of Malaria
C Malaria
Prevention Using Vaccines
D The Elimination of the Malaria Parasite
The renewed spread of malaria in recent years, particularly in parts of sub-Saharan
Africa, has been a cause of great concern to health workers
and officials around the
world. The global health community was once confident that the disease had been
brought under control, with many successes in ridding large areas of malaria over the
previous decades, but now increasingly large numbers of people are
dying from the
mosquito-borne ailment. Forty per cent of the world's population live in areas that are
infected with malaria, and each year brings approximately 270 million new cases. Table
1 summarises recent distribution by geographic area.
The resurgence of malaria is occurring in several parts of the world. However, it is most
acute
in Africa, south of the Sahara Desert, where according to a 1993 World Health
Organisation (WHO) report, between 1.4 and 2.8 million people,
half of them children,
now die each year from the disease. This is triple the annual number of people in the
same region who die of AIDS. Actual numbers of malaria deaths may be even larger
because the symptoms,
such as chronic fever, are often mistaken for other, unrelated
illnesses, such as influenza or pneumonia.
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