Malaria News
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San Diego -
Malaria is a major disease worldwide affecting billions of people. Until now no vaccine could be produced inexpensively on a mass scale. In a significant step forwards, a new, inexpensive vaccine has been trialled using algae.
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London -
A new study reveals global death rates from malaria may be almost twice the number previously estimated, with 1.24 million people dying from the disease in 2010, far exceeding the World Health Organization’s estimate of 655,000.
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Counterfeit anti-malaria drugs are being distributed throughout Africa to the extent that the lives of millions of people could be endangered.
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British researchers have recently uncovered a milestone that could possibly lead to the eradication of one of the world's most deadly diseases. This discovery could help decrease the malaria-spreading mosquito population.
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Every year almost 800,000 people, mostly children, die from malaria. Tanzania's Ifakara Health Institute has begun to develop a device that may help prevent malaria deaths in the developing world using the odor of smelly socks.
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Kuala Lumpur -
Malaysian scientists have released genetically modified male mosquitoes in Bentong, Pahang, without public approval, in an experiment to fight dengue fever in an uninhabited forested area.
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Hollywood actor George Clooney has been inflicted with malaria while on a humanitarian visit to Sudan, a country in northeast Africa which he visited twice during the past three months.
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Scientists have discovered evidence that the malaria drug artesunate not only contains cancer-fighting properties to help reduce cancer cells in the body, but also increase the effectiveness of existing anti-cancer drugs currently used for treatment.
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Hundreds of people have died and millions more are affected by severe flooding in Colombia and Venezuela.
The situation is getting worse and may deteriorate further before it improves.
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An epidemic, suspected to be malaria, has killed dozens of people of the Yanomami tribe in the Venezuelan Amazon. Leaders of the three villages told health workers that around 50 people have died so far, many of them children.
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Malaria Headlines
Scientists find new evidence that resistance to the front-line treatments for malaria is increasing.
The number of deaths worldwide from malaria has been underestimated, according to data published in the medical journal the Lancet.
Scientists have found new evidence that resistance to the front-line treatments for malaria is increasing.
A third of malaria drugs used around the world to stem the spread of the disease are counterfeit, research reveals.
The World Health Organisation says significant progress is being made against malaria thanks, partly, to a campaign of using insecticide-treated bed-nets.
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