Papua Tropical Malaria Claims Lives

AS many as 40 people from the Maya, Mapa, Samepa, and Bilay villages in Homeyo district, Intan Jaya regency, Papua, have succumbed to the tropical malaria epidemic.

According to one member of the Papua Regional House of Representatives (DPRD), Julius Miagoni, the temperature at each corresponding region is exceptionally cold at 8 degrees Celsius. “The epidemic started in April and has lasted well until this