He is the last French tennis player to have won Roland-Garros, in 1983. Yannick Noah has just declared on his social networks that he has caught a fatal disease. Fortunately, he would recover.
At 62, Yannick Noah has had multiple careers. Talented tennis player, successful singer, captain of the Fed Cup and Davis Cup teams, the last Frenchman to have won Roland-Garros is on all fronts.
Committed once morest malaria
For the past few years, he has shared his life between France and Cameroon, his father’s country. Still very active, Yannick Noah recently got involved in the fight once morest malaria.
“It’s a project close to my heart, because there are too many women and children dying. It’s time for this to stop,” he told the site. ActuCameroun.
But Yannick Noah himself recently contracted malaria. He wanted to reassure his fans by stating that he was restored. “I hope there will be no relapse,” he said on his Instagram account.
According to theOMSthis disease caused by parasites transmitted by the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes, affected 241 million people and caused 627,000 deaths in 2020. 95% of the victims live in Africa.
