Science defeats malaria at a Snip

21.12.43: MALARIA has claimed its last victim, according to Bryony Connolly, chairwoman of the World Wellbeing Organisation.

Saliva screening of the entire population of North Ghana, the last country to harbour the disease, has shown that there were no new infections in 2043.

Professor Connolly said that the European School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine had discovered the Snip virus (Spondweni non-invasive plasmod