Web Links: News articles about Malaria
| Science Daily - August 9, 2010 |
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University developed techniques to quickly identify evolution of drug resistance in strains of malaria. Their goal is to enable the medical community to react quickly to inevitable resistance and thereby save lives while increasing the lifespan of drugs used against the disease.
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| Date Added: August 30 2010 |
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| Science Daily - August 12, 2010 |
Current tools for combating malaria, such as artemisinin-combination therapy and increasing coverage of long-lasting insecticide bednets can result in major reductions in Plasmodium falciparum malaria transmission and the associated disease burden in Africa. Furthermore, if such interventions can be rolled out to achieve a comprehensive and sustained intervention program, a parasite prevalence threshold of 1% may be achievable in areas where there is a low- to moderate transmission of malaria and where mosquitoes mainly rest indoors.
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| Date Added: August 30 2010 |
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| Science Daily - August 17, 2010 |
In research published in PLoS Medicine Stephen Lim and colleagues (University of Washington) systematically estimate the changes in distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) across Africa between 2000 and 2008, and find that several countries have managed to scale up their ITN coverage from near zero to more than 60%.
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| Date Added: August 30 2010 |
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| NZ Herald - August 3, 2010 |
Returning traveller found to have new strain of malaria
An Auckland man has become New Zealand's first reported case of a new and aggressive form of malaria that has jumped the species barrier from monkeys to humans. |
| Date Added: August 03 2010 |
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| Unicef - July 13, 2010 |
Universal blood tests hunt down the malaria parasite in Sabang district, Indonesia
Mohamed Safrina, 22, has never suffered from malaria, but he knows it’s a dangerous illness. However, the labourer from Sabang, an island district off the north-west coast of Indonesia, is terrified of needles and a little apprehensive of the gloved nurse kneeling beside him. |
| Date Added: August 03 2010 |
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| Science Daily - June 17, 2010 |
Establishing a firm link between environmental change and human disease has always been an iffy proposition but a report shows that clearing tropical forest landscapes boosts the incidence of malaria by nearly 50 percent, in Brazil.
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| Date Added: July 15 2010 |
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| Science Daily - June 28, 2010 |
| Using an experimental mouse model for malaria, an international group of scientists has discovered that adding antioxidant therapy to traditional antimalarial treatment may prevent long-lasting cognitive impairment in cerebral malaria. Their findings were published online June 24, 2010, in the journal PLoS Pathogens. |
| Date Added: July 15 2010 |
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| Science Daily - July 12, 2010 |
In 2007, an estimated 656 million fevers occurred in African children aged 0-4 years, with 78 million children of the 183 million attending a public health care facility likely to have been infected with P. falciparum (range 60-103 million), the parasite that causes the most dangerous form of malaria. These findings come from a modelling system devised by Peter Gething and colleagues from the Malaria Atlas Project, a multinational team of researchers funded mainly by the Wellcome Trust.
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| Date Added: July 15 2010 |
Visits: 10 |
| Science Daily - June 16, 2010 |
| An international team of researchers led by Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, IGC, scientist Carlos Penha-Gonçalves, has identified the first genetic risk factors for the development of cerebral malaria in Angolan children, a severe manifestation of malaria infection. |
| Date Added: June 28 2010 |
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| Science Daily - June 21, 2010 |
| Discovery of a key red cell molecule used by the malaria parasite gives renewed hope for an effective vaccine in the future, according to an international team of researchers. |
| Date Added: June 28 2010 |
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| Time Magazine - June 10, 2010 |
Battling a Scourge
To reach the most malarial town on earth, head north from Kampala, cross the Victoria Nile and, just before you come to the refugee camps that mark the southern edge of Uganda's 20-year civil war, turn east to Lake Kwania. Africa's other Great Lakes are known for freshwater beaches and cool evenings, but Kwania is more of a giant swamp: shallow, full of crocodiles and choked with lily, papyrus and hyacinth. The malaria parasite loves it here.
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| Date Added: June 25 2010 |
Visits: 10 |
| Radio Netherlands - June 22, 2010 |
Senegal targets children in the fight against malaria
Pupils at the Garage Beintegnier Basic School in the outskirts of the Senegalese capital, Dakar stands in front of visiting USAID Administrator and staff, shoulder-to-shoulder, and sang an emotional song to their parents. |
| Date Added: June 25 2010 |
Visits: 12 |
| Vaccine News Daily - June 16, 2010 |
Morocco certified malaria free
The World Health Organization has certified Morocco - a country with a population of approximately 31.6 million people - as malaria-free, according to a press release from the WHO |
| Date Added: June 25 2010 |
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| Earth Times - June 25, 2010 |
Efforts to contain drug-resistant malaria strain 'very encouraging'
A two-year effort to contain and eliminate a drug-resistant strain of falciparum malaria near the Cambodian-Thai border has shown signs of success, the government said Friday.
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| Date Added: June 25 2010 |
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| Malaria Journal - June, 18, 2010 |
The spatial-temporal clustering of Plasmodium falciparum infection over eleven years in Gezira State, The Sudan
Malaria infection and disease exhibit microgeographic heterogeneity which if predictable could have implications for designing small-area intervention. Here, the space-time clustering of Plasmodium falciparum infections using data from repeat cross-sectional surveys in Gezira State, a low transmission area in northern Sudan, is investigated. |
| Date Added: June 19 2010 |
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