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Malaria

Volume 463: debated on Tuesday 24 July 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many British nationals have (a) been diagnosed with and (b) died of malaria in each year since 2001. (150944)

Information on the nationality of patients that are diagnosed with or died from malaria are not collected. However, the Health Protection Agency does publish an annual table of imported malaria cases and deaths, shown in the following table.

The information is available on the Health Protection Agency website at:

www.hpa.org.uk/infection/topics_az/malaria/cases_deaths.htm

Imported malaria cases and deaths, United Kingdom 2001-06

Total (number of cases)

Deaths

2006

1,758

8

2005

1,754

11

2004

1,660

5

2003

1,722

16

2002

1,945

9

2001

2,050

9