Figure 4

Malaria fatality rates and number of hospitalizations due to the disease in the Brazilian Amazon from 1999 to 2009. The number of hospitalizations due to malaria in the Brazilian Amazon dropped from 53,450 in 1994 to 18,037 in 2000 and 4,442 in 2009 as did the number of registered deaths attributed to the disease (from 897 in 1984 to 58 in 2009) as well as the fatality rate (from 0.038% in 2000 to 0.013% in 2009). The malaria cases seen in Brazil are being rapidly diagnosed and treated (59% of all malaria cases in 2008 registered in the Amazon were treated in the first 48 hours after appearance of symptoms, Malaria/SVS/MS, 2009), diminishing both the transmission and the occurrence of severe cases.