Fig. 2.

Reported malaria case numbers in European countries from 1917 to 1978. The blue lines represent the reported all-cause malaria case numbers. Source: Bruce-Chwatt and de Zulueta [9]. Yugoslavia [52] and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) [53] were existing countries during the 1917–1980s and 1922–1991, but both became sets of independent countries. Yugoslavia was composed of Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia; USSR included Russian Federation, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Estonia, and Moldova