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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Mosquito attack
The government is worried that malaria might spread among the Indian troops deployed along the India-Bhutan border. It has started providing soldiers with insecticide-treated mosquito nets and mosquito repellents. During the past five years, at least 50 army and paramilitary troopers have died of malaria in Assam. Mosquitoes have also affected militants, forcing them from their hide-outs. A retired chief engineer of the state's public works department, who was kidnapped by the United Liberation Force of Asom, died of malaria last week.
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Anti malarial drug from shellfish
<font class="UCASE">green</font> mussels (<i>Perna viridis</i>), found commonly in the Goa seawater, can yield malaria drugs, say scientists. <br>
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Malaria in a ferment
Using yeast to produce a cure
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Malaria forecast
Meteorology can predict incidence five months in advance
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Combined attack
Fresh WHO guidelines for malaria
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Climate change and malaria in India
The focus in this paper is to understand the likely influence of climate change on vector production and malaria transmission in India.
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Vaccine Eloquent
Universal vaccination became part of government policy in 1978. A quarter of a century since, progress has been fitful. In some parts of the country the south especially progress has been impressive, but in two of the most populous states Bihar and
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Techno tracks
Emerging scenarios, new dilemmas
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Drug abuse
Can render ineffective the only antimalarial medicine against Plasmodium falci
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Body burden: health and environment in India
A degraded environment brings with it a set of health problems - some new and some, which have posed a challenge over the years. Presenting Body Burden, a compilation of reports from Down to Earth on the health impacts of environment pollution in India.