Tag Archives: Malaria

A study recently published in The Lancet found that researchers in Tanzania were able to cut malaria incidence by two-thirds through a combination of anti-malarial drugs and iron supplements. Malaria is especially lethal in infants and children because the malaria … Continue reading →

African nations marked April 25, 2001 as the first Africa Malaria Day to highlight the continuing persistence of the diseases that kills more than a million people every year on the continent (90 percent of all malaria deaths occur in … Continue reading →

Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine are investigating a possible treatment for Malaria which acts by trapping the parasite in its protective sac. Trap the parasite long enough, and it simply dies before it can wreak havoc on … Continue reading →

After making significant progress against Malaria in the 1950s and 1960s, the disease is back and, in fact, rates of malaria incidence are increasing in many developing countries. Why? One answer that has been increasingly common is that global warming … Continue reading →

Thanks to the excessive use of pesticides such as DDT in the 1950s and 1960s, many mosquitoes around the world now have a good deal of resistance to such chemicals. The emergence of pesticide-resistant mosquitoes and the subsequent failure to … Continue reading →

For many decades the most effective treatment for those infected with Malaria was chloroquine. But recently in many parts of the world a strain of malaria parasite that is resistant to chloroquine emerged. Some countries were forced to simply abandon … Continue reading →

The BBC reported last week that trials of a new vaccine for Malaria are now underway in the African nation of Gambia. The vaccine has already been tested in small trials held in Great Britain which were successful, but this … Continue reading →

As if African nations didn’t have enough problems to worry about, a recent study published in the British medical magazine The Lancet confirms that HIV positive individuals are much more likely to contract Malaria than those not infected with the … Continue reading →

Too many children in Africa die from malaria, and so far nobody’s come up with much a solution. A recent study published in the Lancet, however, suggests that the answer might be as simple as giving mothers training on administering … Continue reading →

    Malaria is still an enormous problem in many parts of the world. The World Health Organization estimates that every year there are 300 to 500 million cases of malaria worldwide and approximately 1 million deaths attributable to malaria (the disease … Continue reading →