In Australia there hasn’t been a major outbreak of malaria since World War II when servicemen returned from Papua New Guinea, and Australia has been officially malaria-free since 1981. While some cases do exist, they are brought in by travellers returning from sub-tropical locations and are often treated and harmless.
This is not the case around the world. Today malaria kills almost 1 million people each year, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa. It accounts for 16 per cent of all under-five deaths in Africa, third only to neonatal causes and pneumonia.
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/fight-against-malaria-a-test-on-the-road-to-ending-global-poverty-20100426-tmx8.html
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