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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Mumbai hit with diseases after rains
after the monsoon deluge, Mumbai has witnessed an outbreak of diseases such as malaria, dengue and leptospirosis, taking the death toll to 68 on August 2. The pace at which people are dying is
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Herbs to heal malaria
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, may have hit upon a way to make malaria treatment easily accessible. They have found that a combination of curcumin from turmeric (a
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Climate change causes species to change habitats
A warmer climate is playing havoc with both flora and fauna
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Recalcitrant regime
Malaria thrives on administration in denial
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Why's malaria taking its toll?
Assam faces a spate of malaria deaths. As the disease assumes near epidemic proportions, it is becoming increasingly clear that the government does not have the will or infrastructure to cope
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Northeast nostrums
Malaria is endemic to all states in the northeast, says a health official. "The trend is well known
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Banking on nothing
The World Bank has come up with a Global Strategy and Booster Program for the years 2005-2010 to control malaria. But Amir Attaran of the Institute of Population Health and Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada, has argued in <i>The Lancet</i> that the bank does not have the expertise to promote the right strategy.
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Vector variables
Malaria is transmitted by the genus <i>Anopheles</i>. India has 58 species, of which six are important: <i>An culicifacies</i>, <i>An fluviatilis</i>, <i>An minimus</i>, <i>An sundaicus</i> , <i>An stephensi</i> and <i>An dirus</i>. In the northeast, <i>An minimus</i> and <i>An dirus</i> are the major vectors
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Disease stymied
Though there are more than 160 species of the plasmodium parasite, only four infect humans. Amongst the two common ones, <i>Pf</i> is more closely related to the parasite that causes malaria in chimpanzees and birds. <i>Pv, </i> in contrast, is more like the one that affects macaques, a tropical monkey.
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Outbreak
Malaria control in Assam mired in corruption, mismanagement