Sri Lanka Is Declared Malaria Free by World Health Organization
Sri Lankan here. We're not exactly celebrating because within the last 10 years, cases of dengue fever has risen from about 9000 to 32000:<a href="http://www.dengue.health.gov.lk/index.php/information-on-dengue/sri-lankan-situation" rel="nofollow">http://www.dengue.health.gov.lk/index.php/information-on-den...</a><p>Another interesting thing: when DDT was banned in the 1960's, Sri Lanka's malaria cases went from 17 to half a million: <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2005/02/17/ddt3/" rel="nofollow">http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2005/02/17/ddt3/</a>