November 10, 2013

US malaria cases up
http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/U-S-malaria-cases-climb-as-global-rates-drop-4969319.php
Even as rates of malaria are falling in many of the world's hot spots for tropical diseases, the number of cases in the United States is climbing as global travel becomes cheaper and easier, health officials say. Rates of malaria - a parasitic illness ...


3D holograms of malaria sperm movement 'may stop spread'
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/268445.php
Scientists have a developed a new 3D filming technique that creates moving digital holograms of malaria "sperm," which researchers say have provided "fresh insights" into how the organisms mate. This is according to a study published in the Proceedings ...


DR receives a ?Malaria Champions of the Americas? award
http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/poverty/2013/11/9/49578/DR-receives-a-Malaria-Champions-of-the-Americas-award
Washington.? Three initiatives from Colombia, Brazil and the Dominican Republic were recognized on Nov. 6 as the 2013 ?Malaria Champions of the Americas? for being model projects that integrate malaria interventions with solutions to other health ...


Government criticized as malaria deaths spike in Cameroon
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/30/world/africa/cameroon-malaria-deaths/
(CNN) -- Nearly 800 people have died in a recent malaria outbreak in northern Cameroon, one described by public health officials as "a severe and sudden epidemic." Doctors treating more than 12,000 victims of the disease say those who died in the past ...


Agency Fights Malaria, Tuberculosis With Japanese Technology
http://leadership.ng/news/091113/agency-fights-malaria-tuberculosis-japanese-technology
In a statement made available to journalists in New York by Dr B.T. Slingsby, executive director of GHIT explained that the agency's six new investments in potential treatments for malaria, tuberculosis and Chagas disease infections that afflict one in ...


Malaria cases hit 40-year high in US
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/malaria-cases-hit-40-year-high-us-8C11505324
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2011, 1,925 malaria cases were reported in the United States,? CDC said in a statement. ?This number is the highest since 1971, more than 40 years ago, and represents a 14 percent increase since 2010. Five people in the U.S. died from malaria or ...


'Hmm, which is more important: connectivity or malaria vaccine?'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/08/quotw_ending_november_8/
Quotw This was the week when Bill Gates said that Mark Zuckerberg's attempts at benevolent billionaire philanthropy were rubbish. The ex-Microsoftie belittled Zuck's attempts to better mankind by getting everyone online, saying that should be pretty ...


Nation Has Huge Stock of Malaria Drugs - Veep
http://allafrica.com/stories/201311090533.html
Salima ? Vice President, Khumbo Kachali has disclosed that the country has abundance of Malaria Drugs in stock and that it would be an insult for someone to die because of the disease. He made the sentiments on Friday in Salima where he was launching ...