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A World Health Organization expert panel on Friday recommended pilot roll-outs of the world’s most advanced malaria vaccine to young children in several areas...
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A drug-resistant malaria parasite from southeast Asia can infect African mosquitoes, said a study Tuesday, boosting fears that a hard-to-cure variant of the disease...
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A frontline drug in the fight against malaria, artemisinin has a history going back many centuries, for it traces its past to ancient Chinese...
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Malaria deaths worldwide have fallen by 60 percent since 2000, the UN said Thursday, with improved diagnostic tests and the massive distribution of mosquito...
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The world’s most advanced malaria vaccine got the nod Friday from European regulators, despite mixed trial results, for eventual use in children in African...
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When a mosquito carrying a malaria causing parasite bites another infected host, more than one type of parasite exists in the animal’s body. This...
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Researchers have been looking at the birds of South Africa, with a view to see what the role of birds is in the transmission...
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Remarkable as it may seem, by increasing the stiffness of erythrocytes infected by the parasites that cause malaria, Viagra can result in the removal...
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The world’s most advanced malaria candidate vaccine offers young children partial protection that wanes with time, but could shield millions against the deadly parasite,...
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Scientists have discovered that one malaria causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum produces chemical compounds called terpenes. Terpenes are a large and diverse class of organic...