200,000 DIE IN EGYPT

Grey River Argus, 17 February 1945, Page 8

200,000 DIE IN EGYPT

MALARIA CATASTROPHE. LONDON, February 15. Approximately 200,000 peasants died in a great malaria epidemic which swept through Egypt from 1942 to 1944. The fact has only now been made known, because censorship under Nahas Pasha’s late Government prevented correspondents mentioning the epidemic previously. The Nahas Government, then in power refused repeated offers of help from the British Government, although the epidemic was claiming thousands of vicitims weekly. In the past six months, with help from Britain finally accepted, there have been only six deaths from malaria.