Schools that provide prevention education, insecticide-treated nets and antimalarial treatment, in regions where malaria is highly seasonal, could reduce the risk of schoolchildren developing anaemia and improve their cognitive ...
Jun 28, 2017
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The National Institutes of Health has renewed a major grant that funds a University of Washington-led research center to understand malaria in India.
Jun 20, 2017
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The highlands of Ethiopia are home to the majority of the country's population, the cooler climate serving as a natural buffer against malaria transmission. New data now show that increasing temperatures over the past 35 ...
Jun 15, 2017
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A new genetic fingerprinting technique has for the first time shown the huge genetic diversity of the malaria parasite, one of nature's most persistent and successful human pathogens.
May 2, 2017
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A new malaria vector discovered in South Africa is not linked to the 'Odyssean' malaria cases reported in two provinces this week.
Mar 13, 2017
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The mosquito Anopheles darlingi is the main vector of malaria in Central and South America, but little has been investigated about its behavior. Now, researchers, reporting in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, have used traps ...
Feb 23, 2017
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For the first time, researchers have shown that the number of parasites each mosquito carries influences the chance of successful malaria infection.
Jan 12, 2017
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Malaria elimination in historically high transmission areas like southern Africa is possible with tools that are already available, provided those tools are deployed aggressively - according to new research published in PLOS ...
Nov 23, 2016
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The large randomised study of 200,000 children was led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal. It found Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) also reduced cases in those ...
Nov 22, 2016
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has one of the highest rates of people living with malaria. Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) account for more than 70 percent of diagnostic testing for malaria in Africa. Most rapid ...
Nov 17, 2016
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