21-year-old aid worker dies from malaria in Kenya
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/kenya/10853560/21-year-old-aid-worker-dies-from-malaria-in-Kenya.html
?It's got the highest rate of malaria but she had had all her injections and was taking tablets.? Miss Kelly attended Ilfracombe Arts College before completing a foundation degree in Dance and Community Work Practice at Plymouth university. She became ...
Has Malaria Met Its Match?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulrodgers/2014/05/23/has-malaria-met-its-match/
Malaria kills a child a minute, making it the most deadly infectious disease for under-fives on the planet. Now children are on the verge of taking revenge on the parasite. A new vaccine based on the blood of toddlers with a natural resistance to the ...
Malaria-stricken yoga instructor flown back to Atlanta; still critical
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/atlanta-community-rallies-around-yoga-instructor-s/nf4Xr/
?The doctors here are trying to confirm the malarial diagnosis and trying to treat her pain. We are just asking for privacy right now, as she begins her journey toward healing.? It is any travelers' worst nightmare ? getting sick in a foreign country ...
Commencement Speaker Sandeep Kishore Leaves Mark on Malaria and Weill ...
http://weill.cornell.edu/news/news/2014/05/commencement-speaker-sandeep-kishore-leaves-mark-on-malaria-and-weill-cornell.html
Back in India, Tata ? his grandfather's best friend with whom Dr. Kishore became close during the trip ? had also fallen into a coma, and later died from cerebral malaria. With the help of advanced medicine near his home in southwest Virginia, the ...
Immune children help scientists fight malaria
http://blueandgreentomorrow.com/2014/05/24/immune-children-help-scientists-fight-malaria/
A group of children from Tanzania immune to malaria are helping US researchers in their attempts to find life saving treatments for the disease. The researchers in the US have found that they produce an antibody that is capable of attacking the malaria ...
A passion for science?and fighting malaria
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/a-passion-for-science-and-fighting-malaria/
During an interview for the PhD Program in Biological Sciences in Public Health, Marcenac found herself fascinated by her faculty interviewers' work on the malaria vector and parasite, and by the time she said good-bye, she'd found her research calling.
Britain faces malaria risk as climate change sees mosquitoes thriving in ...
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/britain-faces-malaria-risk-as-climate-change-sees-mosquitoes-thriving-in-garden-water-butts-9413402.html
Mosquitoes in the UK are free of diseases that can infect humans but the report's authors say that the rising number of insects breeding in urban areas increases the chances of a potential outbreak of malaria and the less dangerous West Nile Virus in ...
Experimental Malaria Vaccine Weakens Parasite
http://www.voanews.com/content/experimental-malaria-vaccine-weakens-parasite/1920571.html
Scientists are developing a vaccine against malaria that is designed to limit the illness in children who have been bitten by mosquitoes carrying the disease-causing organism. They have discovered a protein that is essential for malaria parasites to ...