Malaria Control

World Malaria Day was established by the World Health Organisation to highlight the global burden of malaria and to promote actions to prevent and control the disease.

National Dengue Day 2023: In this article, we discuss some of the most effective preventive measures to avoid mosquito bites and prevent dengue.

India's drug regulator has allowed the export of the first produced-in-India vaccine against malaria, developed by scientists at the University of Oxford and manufactured by Serum Institute to the UK.

Dengue: As cases are on a daily rise, here is what you need to know.

Dengue: Here are the updates on dengue cases in Karnataka and how to prevent it.

Dengue: We discuss the global outbreak we are facing this year and how to prevent contraction.

Malaria usually shows symptoms like fever, chills, vomiting, headache muscle pain and fatigue. Mosquito bites should be prevented to control the risk of malaria. To fight against malaria, homemade soups might help as researchers have found that some of the soup recipes have anti-malarial properties.

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania explained that an enzyme called PPT1 - opens up a new pathway for potential cancer treatments.

Steven Lindsay, a public health entomologist at Durham University in England, has been researching malaria control for decades. His preferred approach, he says, is to "sit on the boundaries," drumming up ideas that others might not. So it's perhaps unsurprising that his latest project was inspired by the baggage-claim area at Dulles International A...

At a recent conference held at Male, experts from the World Health Organisation suggested that the capacities of health systems should be strengthened to prevent, detect and eliminate existing and emerging vector-borne diseases such as dengue and chikungunya in India and South-East Asia.

Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare JP Nadda on Wednesday held a high level meeting to review the preventive measures and programmes underway to control vector borne diseases including dengue, malaria and chikungunya.

Reported Malaria cases in the capital have doubled as compared to last year's data. 177 have been reported till now.

While data from the MCD does not make clear the entire story about the spread of dengue, malaria, chikungunya, there is a serious reason to worry.

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government will start distribution of Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets, also called medicated nets, in three tribal dominated malaria prone districts on the occasion of the World Malaria Day, official sources said on Monday. The districts where these medicated nets would be distributed from April 25 are – Malkangiri, Koraput and...

New Delhi: Indoor residual spray, a malaria control measure, saved the lives of over 41 million people in India in 2015, the World Health Organisation said on Monday, asserting that the method was a “highly effective” way for vector control. On the eve of World Malaria Day, the global health body stressed the need for countries in the South Eas...

World Malaria Day was established by the World Health Organisation to highlight the global burden of malaria and to promote actions to prevent and control the disease.

National Dengue Day 2023: In this article, we discuss some of the most effective preventive measures to avoid mosquito bites and prevent dengue.

India's drug regulator has allowed the export of the first produced-in-India vaccine against malaria, developed by scientists at the University of Oxford and manufactured by Serum Institute to the UK.

Dengue: As cases are on a daily rise, here is what you need to know.

Dengue: Here are the updates on dengue cases in Karnataka and how to prevent it.

Dengue: We discuss the global outbreak we are facing this year and how to prevent contraction.

Malaria usually shows symptoms like fever, chills, vomiting, headache muscle pain and fatigue. Mosquito bites should be prevented to control the risk of malaria. To fight against malaria, homemade soups might help as researchers have found that some of the soup recipes have anti-malarial properties.

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania explained that an enzyme called PPT1 - opens up a new pathway for potential cancer treatments.

Steven Lindsay, a public health entomologist at Durham University in England, has been researching malaria control for decades. His preferred approach, he says, is to "sit on the boundaries," drumming up ideas that others might not. So it's perhaps unsurprising that his latest project was inspired by the baggage-claim area at Dulles International A...

At a recent conference held at Male, experts from the World Health Organisation suggested that the capacities of health systems should be strengthened to prevent, detect and eliminate existing and emerging vector-borne diseases such as dengue and chikungunya in India and South-East Asia.

Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare JP Nadda on Wednesday held a high level meeting to review the preventive measures and programmes underway to control vector borne diseases including dengue, malaria and chikungunya.

Reported Malaria cases in the capital have doubled as compared to last year's data. 177 have been reported till now.

While data from the MCD does not make clear the entire story about the spread of dengue, malaria, chikungunya, there is a serious reason to worry.

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government will start distribution of Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets, also called medicated nets, in three tribal dominated malaria prone districts on the occasion of the World Malaria Day, official sources said on Monday. The districts where these medicated nets would be distributed from April 25 are – Malkangiri, Koraput and...

New Delhi: Indoor residual spray, a malaria control measure, saved the lives of over 41 million people in India in 2015, the World Health Organisation said on Monday, asserting that the method was a “highly effective” way for vector control. On the eve of World Malaria Day, the global health body stressed the need for countries in the South Eas...