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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UK government sets up £1bn fund to fight malaria
The UK government is to create a new £1bn fund aimed at eradicating malaria and other infectious diseases. The Ross Fund will be run in partnership with US philanthropists, Bill and Melinda Gates. It
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Plasmodium P-Type cyclin CYC3 modulates endomitotic growth during oocyst development in mosquitoes
<p>Cell-cycle progression and cell division in eukaryotes are governed in part by the cyclin family and their regulation of cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs). Cyclins are very well characterised in model
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Dengue cases cross last year's markf
The city has been witnessing menace of vector-borne diseases as the cases of dengue and malaria crossed the previous year numbers. Each day , around two cases of dengue, seven of malaria and four of
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FIFA health program for children filmed in Ghana
The fourth leg of the FIFA '11 for health' program has been launched in Accra on Tuesday. FIFA approved Ghana as the first country in the world for the 4th edition of the program that trains kids in
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Dengue threat looms large over schools, colleges
Anti-malaria wing finds these potential breeding grounds for larvae; schools put on notice Dengue threat is looming large over schools and colleges in the city. The anti-malaria wing has found these
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Malaria vaccine cautiously recommended for use in Africa
<p>The world's first vaccine against malaria should be rolled out in limited 'pilot' demonstrations in Africa, an advisory group to the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva said on 23
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Nobel-winning drug 'tackles malaria'
A parasitic-worm-killing drug, whose discovery won the Nobel prize, may also cut cases of malaria, say researchers. Early data coming out of trials of ivermectin in Burkina Faso suggest it leads to 16%
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Large-scale range collapse of Hawaiian forest birds under climate change and the need for 21st century conservation options
<p>A key challenge in climate change adaptation planning is projecting how changes in climate will affect efforts to conserve biological communities, and in particular species already under threat. While
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Artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum clinical isolates can infect diverse mosquito vectors of Southeast Asia and Africa
<p>Artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum parasites are rapidly spreading in Southeast Asia, yet nothing is known about their transmission. This knowledge gap and the possibility that these parasites
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Ape parasite origins of human malaria virulence genes
<p>Antigens encoded by the var gene family are major virulence factors of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, exhibiting enormous intra- and interstrain diversity. Here we use network analysis