A Faster Way to Find the Origin of Malaria
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/17/health/a-faster-way-to-find-the-origin-of-malaria.html
By using a DNA ?bar code? of 23 short snips from the genes of parasites that cause malaria, scientists can now often quickly determine where they originated, British researchers report. The information could be useful in fighting local outbreaks, which ...
As Summer Begins, Maryland Zoo Monitors Penguins For Malaria
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2014/06/20/as-summer-begins-maryland-zoo-monitors-penguins-for-malaria/
BALTIMORE (WJZ)?All our recent heavy rains and warmer temperatures are posing a threat to an unlikely victim, the penguin. Alex DeMetrick has more on why this time of year puts penguins at the Maryland Zoo at risk. It's a parasitic disease most often ...
How Sex Could Wipe Out Malaria
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/sex-wipe-malaria/story?id=24141137
Scientists think they have figured out a way to wipe out mosquitoes that transmit malaria, a horrible disease that kills a million humans every year. Based on laboratory experiments, they think they can do it by messing up the sex life of Anopheles ...
Cheryl Cole Reveals Rose Tattoo Was Part Of Bucket-List, Following Malaria ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06/21/cheryl-cole-rose-tattoo-bucket-list-malaria-graham-norton_n_5517325.html
Cheryl Cole's enormous rose tattoo raised many eyebrows when it was revealed by the Girls Aloud singer last year. Now Cheryl has revealed, on Graham Norton's sofa, that the tattoo was one of a list of things she created following her bout of malaria in ...
World Cup Travel Log: Taking no chance with Malaria, bring on the medication ...
http://www.mlssoccer.com/worldcup/2014/news/article/2014/06/19/world-cup-travel-log-taking-no-chance-malaria-bring-medication-and-wild-drea
This reporter isn't taking any risks with Malaria, but I'm told the pills might give me some wild dreams along to go along with the obvious medical benefits. Something to look forward to when I close my eyes at night, I guess. I've got some heavy-duty ...
Math tool used for criminal profiling used to target malaria
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/263998891.html
Now the same tool used by the Metropolitan Police and FBI has been adapted by scientists at Queen Mary University of London in order to control outbreaks of malaria and possibly other diseases. Reporting in the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution, ...
How to get mosquitoes to breed themselves to death
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21604092-how-get-mosquitoes-breed-themselves-death-x-marks-spot
KILL the mosquito and you kill the disease. That is the usual approach to controlling malaria. And if done properly, it works. The problem is that the insecticides employed to do the killing destroy lots of other things as well. An old dream of those ...
How to Beat Malaria, Once and for All
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/opinion/sunday/how-to-beat-malaria-once-and-for-all.html
MAE SOT, Thailand ? MALARIA is a seasonal disease; with tropical rains come the fevers. In the news media, malaria is also seasonal. Every spring around World Malaria Day we hear about its devastating effects, including deaths in the hundreds of ...