Scientists believe they have cracked the question of how the malaria parasite keeps a low profile in infected people during the dry season in Africa in order to avoid immune attention and trigger outbreaks when the rains ...
Aug 11, 2021
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Antibodies have drawn a spotlight over the past year and a half as scientists and lay people alike have asked how long the infection-fighting proteins persist in the face of a formidable enemy—a pandemic virus that has ...
Gender inequalities in malaria programs are putting women and girls at greater risk from the disease, says a report by organizations battling to eradicate it.
Jul 23, 2021
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Advanced technologies have been used to solve a long-standing mystery about why some people develop serious illness when they are infected with the malaria parasite, while others carry the infection asymptomatically.
Jul 23, 2021
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A large international team of researchers has found a small molecule compound that has proven to be effective in treating malaria in mice. In their paper published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the group ...
Despite major progress in the global fight to end malaria, the parasite responsible for the disease has evolved resistance to every antimalarial drug deployed to date.
Jul 20, 2021
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Using simple blood tests could help researchers identify children who have been misidentified as having severe malaria, according to a study published today in eLife.
Jul 6, 2021
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Two U.S. Phase 1 clinical trials of a novel candidate malaria vaccine have found that the regimen conferred unprecedentedly high levels of durable protection when volunteers were later exposed to disease-causing malaria parasites. ...
Jun 30, 2021
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Malaria still kills millions. Researchers are excited by a new intervention: giving people a drug which kills mosquitoes that bite them. Incredibly, this is a reality, as the drug ivermectin, widely used for the control of ...
Jun 30, 2021
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China was certified as malaria-free on Wednesday by the World Health Organization, following a 70-year effort to eradicate the mosquito-borne disease.
Jun 30, 2021
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