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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BITE OF DEATH
The Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh are in the serious grip of an epidemic suspected to be cerebral malaria. In the past nine months, unofficial figures state that more than 300 people have
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Good gas
malaria research has thrown up yet another factor which determines why the disease varies in its manifestations in different people, from children to adults. Nitric oxide, a toxic gas and an air
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Passing a deadly buck
A new virus, behaving suspiciously like malaria, has affected more than 5,000 in Haryana, and the local medical community is busy blaming the villagers for it
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SUB SAHARAN AFRICA
Thousands of Africans fall prey to malaria every year. But a recent study shows that a Chinese herbal medicine could do wonders for treating cerebral malaria. The medicine called artemether can cure
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A bite of life
science continues to astonish. In a reversal of roles, a genetically engineered mosquito
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Mefloquine mania
To conquer the growing menace of malaria, a wonder drug is being smuggled into the country, but its effectiveness is still under a cloud
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Vulnerable victims
During pregnancy, women lose part of their defences against malaria, thus becoming more susceptible to the disease, but researchers have now found a solution to the problem
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Borne again
Why is malaria, an easily preventable ailment, showing signs of resurging in all its fury, and what are we doing to contain its marauding steps?
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The faces of malaria
Malaria varies with the type of parasite or vector involved, the level of resistance and eco-epiderniological considerations: TRibAL MALARIA Generally prevalant in the tribal areas of deep
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Life cycle of P falciparum
Life-cycle of P falciparum