Many things in life began with a story. For example, the tradition of passing the Olympic torch originated from a Greek myth in which Prometheus steals fire from the Greek god Zeus to give to mortals. Likewise, malaria, a disease that snuffs out the life of one child every minute, was said to have originated from bad air around swamps.

Today, the World Health Organization launched the 2011 World Malaria Report, chronicling 2010 data on the fight against malaria from across the globe and showing an all-time low in malaria incidence and deaths.