Security forces, copter employed in Tripura to fight the malaria epidemic
http://www.thehealthsite.com/news/security-forces-copter-deployed-in-tripura-to-fight-the-malaria-epidemic/
Central paramilitary and state forces, along with health workers, have fanned out in Tripura while a helicopter has also beeen pressed into service to control malaria. Over 61 people have died due to the disease and over a lakh have fallen ill, a ...
Study: Mosquitoes Can Smell Malaria
http://www.voanews.com/content/study-mosquitoes-can-smell-malaria/1950396.html
Malaria infection makes mice smell a bit better to mosquitoes, raising the odds that they'll be bitten and spread the disease. That's according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The research could point the way to a ...
FG Needs $700m to Eradicate Malaria
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/fg-needs-700m-to-eradicate-malaria/182730/
Speaking in Abuja at the 2014 GBCHealth/CAMA Annual Technical Forum themed:"Capitalising on Competences: Partnering to Eliminate Malaria and Accelerate Impact on Maternal and Child Health", which was supported by Access Bank Plc, she said the ...
Malaria Parasites Can Control Your Scent
http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/malaria-parasites-scent-85016/
And, if you have malaria, new research suggests that the insect can smell you especially well during some stages of the disease. At other stages of infection, by contrast, your mosquito-perceived stench appears to be bridled, which can protect you from ...
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 ...
Malaria may change the way you smell making you irresistible to mosquitoes ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2675435/Malaria-change-way-smell-making-irresistible-mosquitoes-study-finds.html
Scientists know that humans infected with malaria are more likely to be bitten again by disease-carrying mosquitoes and they think it may be because malaria alters the way people smell to make them more alluring to mosquitoes. A magnified Anopheles ...
Wet Season Brings Spike In Malaria
http://karennews.org/2014/07/wet-season-brings-spike-in-malaria.html/
As monsoon rains sweep across Burma from India, villagers in Karen State and along the Thai Burma border are prey to malaria. In the last 10 years, the fight against the malaria parasite has seen dramatic decreases in deaths. The World Health ...
International organisation MSF extends help to control Tripura's malaria outbreak
http://www.thehealthsite.com/news/international-organisation-msf-extends-help-to-control-tripuras-malaria-outbreak/
Malaria outbreak and fever that was recently reported in tribal areas of 11 sub-divisions under five districts in Tripura ? Dhalai, Gomti, Khowai, North Tripura and South Tripura ? claimed lives of over 60 people, leaving more than thousand people ...
