Cases in Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases: 2nd edn

, that the current death rate from malaria inMelanesia is generally low compared to that in Africa. However, I was interested to read that the incidence of severe malariaat the peak of the 1984–1985 epidemic in Efate was 1.6 per 1000 per year. This is almost the same as the death ratereported from Kilifi in Africa