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An international research team has revealed how Plasmodium vivax, one of the main causes of malaria, is capable of infecting people in Africa. This is an important discovery, given that until now these populations were considered ...
Dec 8, 2023
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Researchers who have studied malaria for decades, hoping to find a cure, long thought they'd identified a type of blood that seemed to defend against the disease.
Dec 6, 2023
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Researchers from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) recently decoded how human antibodies protect us from the malaria parasite, which kills more than 600,000 people worldwide annually. The CMCF facility at the Canadian ...
Nov 27, 2023
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The United Nations heralded Wednesday the forthcoming scale-up of malaria vaccination across Africa after the first shipment of doses arrived in Cameroon.
Nov 22, 2023
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Malaria is one of the most widespread and deadly infectious diseases worldwide. New compounds are continuously required due to the risk of malaria parasites becoming resistant to the medicines currently used. A team of researchers ...
Nov 13, 2023
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Turkana County in northwestern Kenya was supposed to be the land that malaria forgot. An arid, windy region abutting Uganda, South Sudan and Ethiopia, its climate was thought to be too dry for the mosquitoes that harbor malaria-causing ...
Oct 12, 2023
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In what was very big news for global health, this week the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended a new vaccine for the prevention of malaria in children, called R21/Matrix-M.
Oct 5, 2023
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In eastern Africa, malaria parasites have developed resistance to artemisinins, the backbone of current treatment regimens, a development that could dramatically worsen malaria's impact if partner drugs fail in the future.
Sep 27, 2023
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Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) are the globally-accepted first-line treatments for malaria—a mosquito-borne disease caused by the Plasmodium falciparum parasite that annually kills around 600,000 people, mostly ...
Sep 21, 2023
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Malaria, an infectious disease caused by parasites belonging to the Plasmodium genus and transmitted by infected mosquitoes, is responsible for mortality and morbidity in more than 40% of the world, making it one of the most ...
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