World malaria report 2023
<p>India topped countries in the South-East Asia region for the most number of malaria cases and deaths in 2022, according to this report published by the World Health Organization (WHO).</p>
Malaria
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DRDO developing malaria cure from NE herb
SHILLONG, Jan 4
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A malaria vaccine?
The promising results from trials of a malaria vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline have kindled hopes of a breakthrough in combating this mosquito-transmitted disease that infects nearly 250 million people, killing about a million every year.
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Signs of drug resistance rattle experts, trigger bold plan
According to several worrisome studies presented here last week at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, resistance against artemisinin-based combination therapies, the gold standard in fighting malaria, seems to be developing in western Cambodia, along the Thai border.
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Spike in malaria, typhoid cases
Zubeda Hameed |Chennai, Fever, vomitting and diarrhoea are common complaints from the outlying inundated areas as the city lacks clean drinking water TWO weeks after the cessation of rain, reports of outbreak of diseases are coming from several areas in the city and the suburbs.
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World malaria report 2008
This report provides an overview of the global distribution of malaria cases and deaths and documents how control strategies recommended by WHO have been adopted and implemented in endemic countries.
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Science & Technology - Briefs
ecological sciences Bird diversity is anti-viral Greater bird diversity protects humans from a deadly virus known to cause meningitis. The West Nile Virus, usually maintained in a bird-mosquito cycle in nature, can be transmitted to humans through a mosquito bite. Biologists from Washington University recently said most birds are bad reservoirs for the virus and so it fails to further
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Curbing malaria: expert for blocking parasite transmission
HYDERABAD: Kotis C.Kafatos, president, European Research Council and Chair of Immunogenomics, Imperial College, London, has expressed scepticism over the long-term effectiveness of treating malaria through drugs or even a vaccine if developed and called eradicating the disease by blocking the transmission of the parasite from the mosquito to humans.
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Bundu school battles malaria
Over 41 students of a school for SC/ST girls near the capital have suddenly fallen ill with symptoms of malaria or viral fever, spreading panic among teachers and parents a week after the tragedy in a Bero residential school where five boys died after drinking milk served with hostel snacks.
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Malaria and dengue the sting in climate change
Southeast Asia and South Pacific island nations face a growing threat from malaria and dengue fever as climate change spreads mosquitoes that carry the diseases and climate-change refugees start to migrate.
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More children sleep under malaria nets
Donald G. Mcneil Jr. By last year, about 19 per cent of African children who lived in areas where malaria was endemic were sleeping under insecticide-treated mosquito nets, according to a new study in The Lancet. Whether or not that is success or failure depends on how you look at it.