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MAGNITUDE OF THE PROBLEM Provisional data for the year 2006 (provisional) reveals the largest numbers of cases in the country were reported by Orissa, followed by Jharkhand, West Bengal, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Gujarat & Uttar Pradesh and the largest numbers of deaths were reported by Assam followed by Orissa, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Maharashtra, Mizoram, Gujarat & Karnataka. 1.67 million cases of malaria (including 0.77 million P.falciparum cases) and 1487 deaths were reported from the country in 2006 (P).
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