February 16, 2014

Rise in Malaria Forecast for Tropical Highlands
http://allafrica.com/stories/201402150128.html
Santiago ? More people may contract malaria in the tropical highlands of Africa, Asia and South America as global warming makes the climate in these areas more suitable for the disease's transmission, according to a study. While the study focuses on ...


Nazis researched using mosquitoes to spread malaria
http://www.timesofisrael.com/evidence-shows-nazis-had-bug-based-biological-warfare-program/
The research revealed that near the end of the war, in 1944, the institute began to research ways to keep malaria-infected mosquitoes alive long enough for them to be transported from breeding labs and released behind enemy lines. Institute director ...


'I nearly died because I ignored the risk of malaria'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/10627544/I-nearly-died-because-I-ignored-the-risk-of-malaria.html
At this moment, thousands of young travellers will be setting off on their gap year adventures, often to malarial areas. Like many of them, I never took seriously the risks of this dangerous disease. As an aid worker based in Haiti since it was ...


Nazi Scientists May Have Plotted Malaria Mosquito Warfare
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/01/140130-nazi-biological-weapons-biowarfare-mosquito-malaria-history/
Nazi scientists at the infamous Dachau concentration camp may have planned to use offensive biological warfare on Germany's World War II enemies. Newly found records suggest they made plans to release malaria-carrying mosquitoes from airplanes.


Wife kills herself with anti-malaria tablets 'over bungled face operation'
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/459481/Wife-kills-herself-with-anti-malaria-tablets-over-bungled-face-operation
Wife kills herself with anti-malaria tablets 'over bungled face operation'. Wife kills herself with tablets 'over bungled face operation'. A FORMER biology teacher fatally overdosed on tablets after becoming ?obsessed? that cosmetic surgery destroyed ...


New weapon in fight against malaria
http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/NEWS/11010126.New_weapon_in_fight_against_malaria/
SCIENTISTS at Oxford University have found a way to use a mosquito's own DNA to fight the deadly human diseases they carry including malaria. Researchers in the university's Zoology department have found they can take advantage of ?selfish? genetic ...


Malaria eradication Cure all?
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21594956-novel-approach-using-drugs-instead-insecticides-may-make-it-easier
WHAT if it were possible to get rid of malaria? Not just bring it under control, but wipe it from the face of the Earth, saving 660,000 lives a year, stopping hitherto endless suffering, and abolishing a barrier to economic development reckoned by the ...


IRD and NMIMR discovers new malaria prevention strategies
http://www.spyghana.com/ird-nmimr-discovers-new-malaria-prevention-strategies/
The French Institute for Research and Development (IRD) and the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR) have developed new strategies for the prevention of malaria. The development of the strategies was led by Dr Nicaise Ndam, ...