Venezuela's mosquitoes bite back as malaria returns after half a century
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/may/06/venezuela-mosquitoes-bite-back-malaria-returns
The occasional case in remote mining areas aside, Venezuela declared itself malaria-free in the 1960s. This followed a decade-long effort that included widespread spraying of the DDT chemical compound, educational campaigns and a government-led ...
The Robot That Could Kill Malaria
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/08/the-robot-that-could-kill-malaria.html
What happened after news broke of a potential new malaria vaccine still seems surreal to Dr. Stephen Hoffman. The biotech company he had founded, Sanaria, was launching the vaccine, and one of his twentysomething sons, who is in medical school in ...
MIT scholar fights malaria with magnets
http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/05/04/mit-scholar-fights-malaria-with-magnets/aixXl6a5quOF340XMEgtnK/story.html
Even though malaria kills more than 600,000 people every year, it's often difficult to tell who has got it. For a proper test, you need skilled health care workers and sensitive chemicals. Both are often difficult to obtain in hard-hit regions like sub ...
A Goal to Combat Malaria With the Help of a Robot
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/06/science/a-goal-to-combat-malaria-with-the-help-of-a-robot.html
In its effort to develop a unique malaria vaccine, the American company Sanaria wants to build a robot that will do what now requires a line of trained humans with microscopes: dissecting half-frozen mosquitoes with tiny needles to extract their ...
New Method for Genome Sequencing Malaria Parasites Will Aid in the ...
http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2014/05/new-method-for-genome-sequencing-malaria-parasites-will-aid-in-the-understanding-of-these-infections.aspx
A new method for isolating and genome sequencing an individual malaria parasite cell has been developed by Texas Biomed researchers in San Antonio and their colleagues. This advance will allow scientists to improve their ability to identify the ...
An American doctor may have solved a deadly mystery about malaria
http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-05-05/american-doctor-may-have-solved-deadly-mystery-about-malaria
Doctors have long known that malaria is caused by a parasite that is spread by mosquitoes. But those who study the illness have been perplexed by a fundamental question: How exactly does the disease kill? Taylor said no one has ever been certain.
Even a Few Pills Can Put a Dent in the Malaria Rate
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/29/health/even-a-few-pills-can-put-a-dent-in-the-malaria-rate.html
A new way to prevent malaria in areas where it waxes and wanes with the weather appears to be working in West Africa, the medical aid organization Doctors Without Borders said last week. The tactic, seasonal malaria chemoprevention, involves giving ...
Austrian Children Injected With Malaria Parasite
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/austrian-experiments-left-patients-malaria-23559187
An Austrian commission following up on claims that doctors deliberately infected patients with malaria to treat others with syphilis says hundreds of people, including orphans in a psychiatric hospital, might have been infected. The commission started ...
