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Mpox Outbreak In Africa: Is The Mysterious Disease In DRC Caused By Malaria?
Mpox Outbreak In Africa: The outbreak of Mpox in Democratic Republic of Congo, which has spread steadily across Africa, is compounded by overlapping health crises, including severe malaria and malnutrition.
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Scientists Worried As Lifesaving Malaria Drug In Africa Proving Less Effective
Malaria is caused by a parasite called Plasmodium falciparum, which spreads through the bite of a mosquito.
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Serum Institute's New "High Efficacy" Malaria Vaccine Rolls Out In Africa
A new "high efficacy" malaria vaccine co-developed by the Serum Institute of India (SII) and the University of Oxford was officially rolled out on Monday when Cote d'Ivoire in West Africa became the first country to begin administering R21/Matrix-M.
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New Study Links 'Super Mosquitoes' To Rising Malaria Rates In Africa
The research disclosed that in Dire Dawa, malaria instances surged twelvefold during the dry season of 2022 in comparison to 2019.
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Oxford University, Serum Institute Deliver 'High Efficacy' Malaria Vaccine
A University of Oxford developed and Serum Institute of India (SII) manufactured and scaled up "high efficacy" malaria vaccine has been licensed for use in Ghana by Africa's Food and Drugs Authority, the university announced here on Thursday.
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Malaria Deaths Could Double During Coronavirus Pandemic, Warns WHO
The new coronavirus pandemic could severely disrupt access to anti-malaria nets and drugs in sub-Saharan Africa, the World Health Organization said Thursday, warning that malaria deaths risked doubling if efforts are not urgently scaled up.
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Homemade Soup May Help Fight Off Malaria, Reveals Study
The researchers from Imperial College London with school children test their traditional family soup broth recipes that originated from countries in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
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World Malaria Day: World's First Malaria Vaccine Launched In Africa
World Malaria Day: In clinical trials, the vaccine was found to prevent about four in ten malaria cases, including three in ten cases of life-threatening severe malaria: reports.
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India, 15 Other Nations Make For 80 Per Cent Of World Malaria Cases: WHO
India and 15 other countries in sub-Saharan Africa accounted for almost 80 per cent of the malaria cases reported globally last year, according to a WHO report which notes that a whopping 1.25 billion people in India were at the risk of contracting the mosquito-borne disease.
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Toothpaste Ingredient Could Fight Malaria, Research Shows
Research carried out in part by an artificially-intelligent (AI)'robot scientist' has found that a common ingredient of toothpaste could be developed to fight drug-resistant strains of malaria.
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4 Reasons Why Africa, Gates And Barack Obama Want To End Malaria
The world's richest couple, Bill and Melinda Gates, and US President Barack Obama are giving financial backing to global plans to eliminate malaria.
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Presidents And Billionaires Drive Battle Against Africa's Deadliest Creature
Global plans to eliminate malaria were abandoned in 1969 as the goal was seen as prohibitively complicated and expensive, despite success in eradicating the disease in the 1950s in parts of Europe, North America and the Caribbean.
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6 African Nations Could Be Malaria-Free By 2020: WHO
Six countries in Africa, the continent where malaria is most widespread, could be free of the disease by 2020, according to a WHO report published Monday to mark World Malaria Day.
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South Africa Awarded For Record Decrease In Malaria Cases and Related Deaths
South Africa has recently won recognition for achieving the Malaria Millennium Development Goal Target, at the African UnionSummit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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Shortage Of Malaria Drug Points To Better Tool Against Ebola
As doctors struggled to treat growing numbers of patients during the Ebola crisis in West Africa, the shortage of one helpful drug may have led to the discovery of a better one.
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Mpox Outbreak In Africa: Is The Mysterious Disease In DRC Caused By Malaria?
Mpox Outbreak In Africa: The outbreak of Mpox in Democratic Republic of Congo, which has spread steadily across Africa, is compounded by overlapping health crises, including severe malaria and malnutrition.
-
Scientists Worried As Lifesaving Malaria Drug In Africa Proving Less Effective
Malaria is caused by a parasite called Plasmodium falciparum, which spreads through the bite of a mosquito.
-
Serum Institute's New "High Efficacy" Malaria Vaccine Rolls Out In Africa
A new "high efficacy" malaria vaccine co-developed by the Serum Institute of India (SII) and the University of Oxford was officially rolled out on Monday when Cote d'Ivoire in West Africa became the first country to begin administering R21/Matrix-M.
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New Study Links 'Super Mosquitoes' To Rising Malaria Rates In Africa
The research disclosed that in Dire Dawa, malaria instances surged twelvefold during the dry season of 2022 in comparison to 2019.
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Oxford University, Serum Institute Deliver 'High Efficacy' Malaria Vaccine
A University of Oxford developed and Serum Institute of India (SII) manufactured and scaled up "high efficacy" malaria vaccine has been licensed for use in Ghana by Africa's Food and Drugs Authority, the university announced here on Thursday.
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Malaria Deaths Could Double During Coronavirus Pandemic, Warns WHO
The new coronavirus pandemic could severely disrupt access to anti-malaria nets and drugs in sub-Saharan Africa, the World Health Organization said Thursday, warning that malaria deaths risked doubling if efforts are not urgently scaled up.
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Homemade Soup May Help Fight Off Malaria, Reveals Study
The researchers from Imperial College London with school children test their traditional family soup broth recipes that originated from countries in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
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World Malaria Day: World's First Malaria Vaccine Launched In Africa
World Malaria Day: In clinical trials, the vaccine was found to prevent about four in ten malaria cases, including three in ten cases of life-threatening severe malaria: reports.
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India, 15 Other Nations Make For 80 Per Cent Of World Malaria Cases: WHO
India and 15 other countries in sub-Saharan Africa accounted for almost 80 per cent of the malaria cases reported globally last year, according to a WHO report which notes that a whopping 1.25 billion people in India were at the risk of contracting the mosquito-borne disease.
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Toothpaste Ingredient Could Fight Malaria, Research Shows
Research carried out in part by an artificially-intelligent (AI)'robot scientist' has found that a common ingredient of toothpaste could be developed to fight drug-resistant strains of malaria.
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4 Reasons Why Africa, Gates And Barack Obama Want To End Malaria
The world's richest couple, Bill and Melinda Gates, and US President Barack Obama are giving financial backing to global plans to eliminate malaria.
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Presidents And Billionaires Drive Battle Against Africa's Deadliest Creature
Global plans to eliminate malaria were abandoned in 1969 as the goal was seen as prohibitively complicated and expensive, despite success in eradicating the disease in the 1950s in parts of Europe, North America and the Caribbean.
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6 African Nations Could Be Malaria-Free By 2020: WHO
Six countries in Africa, the continent where malaria is most widespread, could be free of the disease by 2020, according to a WHO report published Monday to mark World Malaria Day.
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South Africa Awarded For Record Decrease In Malaria Cases and Related Deaths
South Africa has recently won recognition for achieving the Malaria Millennium Development Goal Target, at the African UnionSummit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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Shortage Of Malaria Drug Points To Better Tool Against Ebola
As doctors struggled to treat growing numbers of patients during the Ebola crisis in West Africa, the shortage of one helpful drug may have led to the discovery of a better one.
