Is malaria worse than usual in Shaheed Benazir Abad?

No. Malaria in Shaheed Benazir Abad is at its usual level for these weeks.

2,483 cases a week, against a usual 2,933.

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Read from these four weekly reports by Field Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Division, National Institutes of Health, Islamabad:

  • Week 36, 2026
  • Week 37, 2026
  • Week 38, 2026
  • Week 39, 2026
The 8 reports behind "usual"
  • Week 36, 2024
  • Week 37, 2024
  • Week 38, 2024
  • Week 39, 2024
  • Week 36, 2025
  • Week 37, 2025
  • Week 38, 2025
  • Week 39, 2025

The publisher's own list of its weekly reports

How this is worked out. The last four weeks against the same four weeks of the two years before, for Shaheed Benazir Abad alone. What "usual" means.

When does malaria usually peak in Shaheed Benazir Abad?

Usually around October: it peaked in September 2024 and October 2025.

2024 peak2025 peakNext ten weeks

That is within the next 4 weeks.

How does Shaheed Benazir Abad compare with the rest of Pakistan?

Shaheed Benazir Abad is 31st of the 80 districts with enough cases to compare, each against its own usual.

usual⅛×8×32×country 0.7×Abbottabad: 0.8×Badin: 0.8×Bajaur: 0.8×Bannu: 0.6×Barkhan: 1.5×Batagram: 0.3×Buner: 1.1×Chagai: 0.6×Charsadda: 0.9×Chitral Lower: 0.7×Chitral Upper: 0.6×D. I. Khan: 0.9×Dadu: 0.7×Lower Dir: 0.5×Upper Dir: 1.5×Ghotki: 1.1×Hangu: 0.8×Haripur: 0.2×Harnai: 0.7×Hyderabad: 1.3×Jacobabad: 1.2×Jaffarabad: 0.1×Jamshoro: 0.8×Jhal Magsi: 0.2×Kalat: 0.0×Kambar Shahdad Kot: 0.6×Central Karachi: 2.1×East Karachi: 1.3×Karachi Keamari: 1.4×Korangi Karachi: 1.0×Malir Karachi: 0.5×South Karachi: 0.8×West Karachi: 1.1×Karak: 1.6×Kashmore: 0.8×Kech: 0.6×Khairpur: 0.5×Kharan: 0.2×Khyber: 1.0×Killa Abdullah: 0.3×Kohat: 1.1×Kohistan Lower: 0.4×Kohistan Upper: 0.5×Kolai Palas Kohistan: 0.3×Lakki Marwat: 0.6×Larkana: 0.5×Lasbela: 0.4×Loralai: 0.9×Malakand: 1.0×Mansehra: 18×Mardan: 4.2×Mastung: 1.1×Matiari: 1.0×Mirpur Khas: 0.6×Nasirabad: 0.8×Naushahro Feroze: 0.6×North Waziristan: 1.5×Nowshera: 2.3×Nushki: 0.0×Peshawar: 0.9×Sanghar: 1.0×Shaheed Benazir Abad: 0.8×Shangla: 0.3×Shikarpur: 0.8×Sohbatpur: 0.1×South Waziristan (Lower): 1.8×South Waziristan (Upper): 0.0×Sujawal: 0.6×Sukkur: 0.7×Swabi: 1.4×Swat: 0.4×Tando Allahyar: 0.7×Tando Muhammad Khan: 0.6×Tank: 0.6×Tharparkar: 0.5×Thatta: 0.7×Tor Ghar: 0.9×Umer Kot: 1.4×Upper Kurram: 0.5×Usta Muhammad: 0.2×Shaheed Benazir Abad

Across Pakistan as a whole, malaria is at 0.7× its usual; in Shaheed Benazir Abad it is 0.8×.

What is malaria?

Malaria is a serious illness caused by a tiny parasite carried by some mosquitoes. It can be prevented and cured.

Signs
Fever, chills and headache, usually 10 to 15 days after the bite. At first it can look like many other fevers.
How it spreads
Through the bite of an infected mosquito. It does not pass from person to person in everyday life.
How to protect yourself
Sleep under insecticide-treated nets, spray homes, use repellent, and cover up. Malaria vaccines protect young children in some areas. Travellers can take preventive medicine.
Get medical help
Get tested quickly for any fever where malaria is found. Go to emergency care for extreme tiredness, confusion, fits, hard breathing, dark pee, yellow skin or unusual bleeding.

In Dooram's words, from the World Health Organization. Source: WHO fact sheet: Malaria, read 8 October 2026. General information, not medical advice.

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A reported case means someone reached a clinic and a form was filed, so these count reports, not everyone who was ill.

Sources. Field Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Division, National Institutes of Health, Islamabad, weekly report. District maps: World Food Programme Spatial Data Infrastructure, published as a Common Operational Dataset by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.