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KUALA LUMPUR, May 24 (Bernama) -- Do you know what is malaria and how itspreads among human beings? This question was briefly posed to some teenagers recently. Their responses were vague.One wide-eyed teenager hesitantly replied, “It is a fever-like sickness.”"I only heard of it recently, we were taught about how one can contract thefever – through mosquitoes, and if I am not wrong, there was a ...
A potential malaria vaccine produced by genetically-engineered algae could allow people to grow their own vaccine at homes, and would be especially useful in rural parts of the developing world, say its developers.
[The Star] RESIDENTS of Bungoma and Teso have appealed to the government to intervene and avert the subsidised AL malaria tablets crisis. Two weeks after the 24-packet tablets disappeared from the shelves, the price has shot up by 200 per cent.
Mumbai, May 28 -- The civic body seems to be adopting the once bitten, twice shy approach towards malaria prevention. After a private contractor violated terms and conditions of the tender last the year, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is relying on government companies this year to ensure timely delivery of oil needed to prevent mosquito breeding. It has approached Indian Oil for ...
More than a third of the malaria-fighting drugs tested over the past decade in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were either fake or bad quality, seriously undermining efforts to fight the disease, a study says.
HANOI, Vietnam -- More than a third of the malaria-fighting drugs tested over the past decade in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were either fake or bad quality, seriously undermining efforts to fight the disease, a study said Tuesday.
It kills 655,000 people a year but there is a $3bn shortfall in funding.
The Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine has received a $3m grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for malaria research. They will use it to attack malaria mosquitoes from a new angle.
A new generation of anti-inflammatory drugs could improve survival for people struck down with malaria.
More than a third of the malaria-fighting drugs tested over the past decade in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were either fake or bad quality, seriously undermining efforts to fight the disease, ...
Although there has been considerable progress made in malaria control over the past 10 years, these global efforts are now under threat due to increasing drug resistance and inadequate treatment. According to the researchers, approximately 42% of malaria drugs examined in Southeast Asia were fake, while around 33% of antimalarial drugs in sub-Saharan Africa contained either too much or too ...
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