Malaria kills twice as many as thought: study

Reuters Saturday 4th February, 2012

LONDON (Reuters) - Malaria kills more than 1.2 million people worldwide a year, nearly twice as many as previously thought, according to new research published on Friday that questions years of assumptions about the mosquito-borne disease.

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