How a crowdfunded robot could finally end malaria
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-a-crowdfunded-robot-could-finally-end-malaria/
In total, about 200 million people are infected with malaria each year and 600,000 of them die from the virus, which is rapidly transmitted by mosquitoes. Sanaria, a biotechnology company based in Maryland that was founded in 2002 and employs ...
Man v mosquito: who is the most dangerous carrier of malaria?
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2014/may/15/man-mosquito-bill-gates-malaria-tweet
To understand the role humans play you need to start with an infected mosquito and follow the entire malaria life cycle. First, the infected mosquito bites a person, the parasites go into the liver and then re-emerge into the blood stream. The parasite ...
Malaria cases on the rise in Mangalore this year too
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/407631/malaria-cases-rise-mangalore-year.html
During April last, the number of malaria cases reported in the MCC is 309. This year, a total of 617 cases were reported. Last year, a total of 4,714 cases were tested positive to malaria in the MCC limits. Looking at this year's figure, Health ...
Gene Sequencing Could One Day Make Malaria Easier To Treat
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/05/13/312193626/new-lab-technique-could-make-malaria-easier-to-treat
One reason malaria may be so difficult to treat is that different types of malaria parasites can be streaming through the victim's body at the same time. Researchers at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio are now applying a form of ...
Malaria Study Receives Global Praise
http://allafrica.com/stories/201405161411.html
Namibia is on route to malaria elimination with a significant drop in malaria cases observed over the past decade from over 400,000 cases in 2003 to just under 3,000 cases in 2013. Data provided by MTC has helped form part of an inclusion study to be ...
Malaria Kills 37
http://allafrica.com/stories/201405170029.html
Thirty-seven people died of malaria throughout the country in one week, bringing the total number of deaths from the disease to 424 since the beginning of the year. According to the latest Health and Child Care Ministry disease surveillance report ...
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http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/better-malaria-detector-wins-mit-100k-0515
Talk about resourcefulness: An MIT team that has leveraged two novelty items to more rapidly and accurately diagnose one of the world's most deadly diseases ? malaria ? captured the grand prize at last night's MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition.
MIT startup winner envisions wristworn, malaria diagnostic device
http://mobihealthnews.com/33193/mit-startup-winner-envisions-wristworn-malaria-diagnostic-device/
?Half the people who have [malaria], don't know they have it,? DDG CEO John Lewandoski, who is a PhD student at MIT, told the audience at the MIT$100K event. ?For a completely curable disease, that's a serious problem. The good news is malaria ...
