Malaria News

More provinces in South Africa, including prosperous Gauteng where Johannesburg and Pretoria, are located could become malaria zones by 2050 due to global warming, the environment minister said, quoting a new ...

More people are accessing prevention and treatment services for malaria, sparking hope that the number of people who become sick and die from malaria will begin to decline.

A six-dose course of the combination of two drugs - artemether and lumefantrine is a highly effective treatment for malaria in the areas of Africa where resistance to frequently used malaria drugs is common, ...

Debate has been raging on the best approach to fight malaria. Kenya's war on malaria could be lost if DDT is not returned as a weapon against the disease, experts argue.

The Food and Drugs Board has directed all clinics and companies holding stocks of 50 milligrams artesunate tablets with logos of "Sunflower" and "Lever" manufactured by Adams Pharmaceutical Group Company ...

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Doctors should consider malaria as the cause of illness in newborns and young infants with fever whose mothers who have immigrated from areas where malaria is common, according to authors of a report in this ...

Intermittent prophylactic treatment with anti-malaria drugs given three times during the first year of life cuts the risk of clinical malaria by over one-third in children up to the age of two, and should be ...

Little progress has been made in the war on malaria because the global body set up to fight the disease in 1998 is failing, a medical journal says.

Gauteng health authorities are on high alert following the admission of a man suspected of having the deadly Marburg virus at Johannesburg Hospital.

MEDICAL aid workers on earthquake-hit Nias island fear a malaria epidemic could break out.

Taking arnica for bruising or apis mel for bee stings has become second nature for many people.

More than 138 thousand cases of Malaria were reported in Kajiado district last year.

AN Australian research team has made a breakthrough discovery about the malaria parasite that could help save millions of lives.

A campaign in Uganda to stop prospective brides using malaria nets as wedding dresses appears to be having an effect.

HANDS THAT COMFORT, THAT HEAL are seen in these touches given by Navy corpsmen and a Marine corporal.

Dr. Mona Reports from Banda Aceh Mar 14, 2005 11:51 am US/Central I'm writing this at midnight Saturday, March 12, 2005, in Banda Aceh, Indonesia.

Australia's donation helps children to learn and prosper The lives of about two hundred underprivileged children at the Baptist School Complex and orphanage at Trotor near Suhum, will be vastly improved as the ...

The apparent rise in the proportion of children in the United States with autism appears to be real, a new analysis suggests.

South and North Korea have agreed to establish a joint team to fight the outbreak of malaria along their heavily fortified border, a South Korean state anti-disease agency said Sunday.

Coun Evans is on the mend after malaria scare Malaria-stricken Coun Bill Evans is recovering and is due to return to his duties in a couple of weeks.

As a volunteer firefighter, Georg-Andreas Pogany had seen disfigured bodies pulled from wrecked cars.

For fruit and vegetables, Dorotan likes to visit the open-air markets on Mott between Canal and Grand streets.

Artificial Intell. Computers etc. Computers etc. Electronics etc. Every year over a million children die of malaria in Africa.

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Former Minister of State for Communications, Alhaji Haruna Elewi, was on his way to London for malaria treatment when he died in the aircraft.

Last month, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $43 million to efforts by a California biochemist to genetically re- engineer bacteria to grow a malaria drug normally grown in six-foot- tall plants in ...

First recorded around 1700 B.C. in China, the vector of malaria (genus Anopheles, known by their posture: mottled wings and tail in the air) is the single biggest cause of death among children worldwide.

Malaria, an old bug from past wars, is cropping up again in the U.S. military. Some Army Rangers coming back from duty in Afghanistan have the disease, and medical experts cite the same reason that may have ...

The tsunami that struck Asia and Somalia left unprecedented, unfathomable death and destruction in its wake.

Audiences at the premier of a film on French doctor Alexander Yersin's life last week in Paris were moved by his ethics and contributions to the medical sector.

Malaria is caused by any of four Plasmodium parasites carried by Anopheles mosquitoes and usually is transmitted by the bite of an infective female Anopheles.