ProMED recently quoted GIDEON in a post about Malaria in India:

According to information available on the Global Infectious Disease and Epidemiology Network (GIDEON)

Two-thirds of all cases are reported from Gujarat, Karnatka, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab.
- Orissa, Assam & Maharashtra account for 80 percent of all _plasmodium falciparum_ malaria.
- Malaria is reported nationwide, including Delhi and Bombay; but not in Hichal Pradesh, Jammu & Sikkim, isolated coastal areas around Western Ghats, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Transmission begins with the onset of the Monsoon seasonb in mid-June.
- _P. vivax_ predominates until August, with _P. falciparum_ infection rising to a peak in September.
- There is no risk for malaria at altitudes above 2000 meters.

Malaria was nearly eradicated from India during the early 1960′s:

The statement that malaria was almost eradicated in the early 60s is best demonstrated by the data in the next section, also from the GIDEON database where numbers of annually reported cases were less than 100 000 during the early 60s, but by the early 70s these numbers were surpassing 1 000 000 cases annually each year. The above newswire report of 286 000 cases this year attributable to malaria is in contrast with the data presented below. More information from knowledgeable individuals would be greatly appreciated.

Number of total cases reported per year 1961 through 2006:
1961 (49 151), 1962 (59 375), 1963 (87 306), 1964 (112 942), 1965 (99 667), 1966 (148 012), 1967 (278 214), 1968 ( 274 634), 1969 (347 975), 1970 ( 694 017), 1971 (1 322 398), 1972 (1 428 649), 1973 (1 930 273), 1974 (3 167 658), 1975 (5 166 142), 1976 ( 6 450 000), 1977 (4 700 000), 1978 (3 600 000), 1979 (3 100 000), 1980 (2 800 000), 1981 (2 600 000), 1982 (2 182 302), 1983 (2 018 605), 1984 (2 184 446), 1985 (1 864 380), 1986 (1 792 167), 1987 (1 663 284), 1988 (1 854 830), 1989 (2 017 823), 1990 (2 018 783), 1991 (2 111 401), 1992 (2 125 800), 1993 ( 2 207 431), 1994 (2 222 869), 1995 (2 988 231), 1996 (2 851 222), 1997 (2 660 057), 1998 ( 2 222 748), 1999 (2 228 471), 2000 (2 031 790), 2001 (2 085 484), 2002 (1 842 019), 2003 (1 869 403), 2004 (1 915 363), 2005 (1 816 342), 2006 (1 047 977).

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