World Health Organizationofficially declared Algeria and Argentina as malaria-free countries after recording no new cases for more than three years.
Now, the numbers of malaria free countries increased to 38 from 36.
Argentina reported the last indigenous case in 2010 while in Algeria it was reported in 2013.
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Algeria is the second African nation to have eliminated the disease after Mauritius which achieved the goal in 1973.
Malaria parasite was discovered by French physician Dr. Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran in 1880.
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Founded: 7 April 1948
Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland
Head: Tedros Adhanom
