EPIDEMIC IN EGYPT
200,000 Peasants Die Of Malaria
In Two Years
BRITISH AID REJECTED
Rec. 11 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 14. Approximately 200,000 peasants died in a great malaria epidemic which swept through Egypt from 1942 to 1944. The British United Press Cairo correspondent says the story can only now be told because censorship under the Nahas Government prevented correspondents from mentioning the epidemic previously. The Nahas Government, then in power, refused repeated offers of help from the British Government, though the epidemic was claiming thousands of victims weekly. In the past six months, with help from Britain finally accepted, there have been only .rix deaths from malaria.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 39, 15 February 1945, Page 5
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