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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A close hard look
Malaria <i>is</i> easy to check. Just do not let mosquitoes breed. This is the essence of the bioenvironmental way to control such tiny big disease carriers. But the administration never took this strategy up seriously. Fifteen years of bureaucrat
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Warming up to diseases
global warming is causing a resurgence in mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever across the world. These diseases are spreading from Kenya to New Guinea and South America
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UNITED NATIONS
A taskforce of foreign policy makers recently suggested that an analysis unit should be set up at the United Nations (UN) to facilitate Security Council's decision-making. Lord Carrington, the UK
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ZIMBABWE
Artemether, the drug used as the last line of defence against malaria is being widely used in Africa. But experts have cautioned that the drug should not be used until resistance to the traditional
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A parasite s parasite
Extreme care is required to ensure the purity of plasmodium cultures
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VENEZUELA
Malaria cases in Venezuela are poised to jump by more than a third next year. Researchers studying statistics covering nearly half a century say that a steep rise in malaria cases always follows
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Be a planner, not a sprayer
The Directorate of the National Malaria Eradication Programme launched the Rs 715 crore Enhanced Malaria Control Project, in New Delhi on September 15. The project is being funded by the World Bank <font class='UCASE'> wb . </font><font class='UCASE'>Pra
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Cash flows
The Indian government has procured a massive loan from the World Bank to deal with malaria<br>
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INDIA
One of the four captive bred Siberian cranes released in the Keolandeo National Park near Bharatpur last year has died. The carcass of the dead bird has been sent to the agriculture university at
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The genius of Ross
A story of perseverance in research