Malaria Prevention, With Both Reward and Risk
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/malaria-prevention-with-both-reward-and-risk/
Alassane Dicko shivered and sweated through part of his childhood. Sick with frequent bouts of malaria, he often missed school. His older brother died of malaria, and so did his best friend. This disease can be cured with a pill, yet it claims about 1 ...
Shredding the X chromosome: Wiping out female malaria-bearing mosquitos ...
http://www.fhcrc.org/en/news/center-news/2014/06/eradicating-female-malaria-bearing-mosquitos.html
As summer heats up, the high-pitched whine of mosquitos thrums more frequently in our ears. For many around the world, that drone isn't just a nuisance, it signals life-threatening danger: malaria. Spread primarily by one group of mosquitos known as ...
Hartsville Five-year-old does her part to help eradicate malaria
http://www.scnow.com/messenger/news/article_220dfa7c-fe11-11e3-b811-0017a43b2370.html
Five-year-old Olive Kronz wants to make a difference in the lives of others. She helped organize a tea party and silent auction to raise money for bed nets for the Imagine No Malaria project, a project of the United Methodist. The tea party was held ...
Two More Malaria Deaths; Toll Reaches 52 in Tripura
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/two-more-malaria-deaths-toll-reaches-52-in-tripura-549548
Mr Choudhury, who visited malaria-affected interior villages with a team of doctors said no deaths were reported from Sepahijala, Gomati and Unakoti districts till date and the maximum causalities were reported from tribal-dominated Dhalai district. A ...
Threatwatch: Top malaria drug may lose punch in Africa
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25813-threatwatch-top-malaria-drug-may-lose-punch-in-africa.html
Threatwatch is your early warning system for global dangers, from nuclear peril to deadly viral outbreaks. Debora MacKenzie highlights the threats to civilisation ? and suggests solutions. Malaria is one of humanity's most ancient foes. It helps keep ...
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 ...
Gates funds 'cow perfume' project to combat malaria
http://www.allaboutfeed.net/Home/General/2014/6/Gates-funds-cow-perfume-project-to-combat-malaria-1550019W/
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals. Commonly, the disease is transmitted by a bite from an infected female mosquito. Scientists are now looking into creating a perfume to confuse the mosquitoes and the research ...
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 ...
