Man evaluated for Ebola at RWJ Rahway actually has malaria, Roselle mayor says
http://www.nj.com/union/index.ssf/2014/09/ebola_fears_rwj_rahway_malaria.html
Later tonight, Holley issued a statement explaining that the man, 69, from Roselle, was actually suffering from malaria. "There were concerns the Garden Drive resident may have contracted Ebola because of his travel history; he had spent a year in ...
Gold Coast 'Ebola' case just as likely to be malaria, says disease expert
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/11/gold-coast-ebola-case-likely-malaria-disease-expert
But associate professor Allen Cheng from Monash University's department of epidemiology and preventive medicine said the Democratic Republic of Congo was not where the primary outbreak of Ebola had occurred, and that malaria was much more likely.
UCSF, Google Earth Engine Making Maps to Predict Malaria
http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/09/116906/ucsf-google-earth-engine-making-maps-predict-malaria
UC San Francisco (UCSF) is working to create an online platform that health workers around the world can use to predict where malaria is likely to be transmitted using data on Google Earth Engine. The goal is to enable resource poor countries to wage ...
Chad: Reducing child mortality by combining malaria prevention and immunization
http://www.msf.org/article/chad-reducing-child-mortality-combining-malaria-prevention-and-immunization
Chad, September 10, 2014 ? As part of its ongoing strategy to combat malaria in Chad, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched a third round of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) in the Moissala and Bouna districts, where malaria is the ...
Finding a better way to take a bite out of malaria's power
http://www.fhcrc.org/en/news/center-news/2014/09/Malaria-drug-trial-treat-prevent-disease-fred-hutch.html
Half the world's population ? more than 3 billion people ? live in malaria-endemic areas. Seattle is far from the tropical and subtropical regions where malaria is transmitted, so while volunteers for other trials are often motivated because they ...
Breakthrough in rapid diagnostics: using magnets to test for malaria
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2014/sep/12/breakthrough-in-rapid-diagnostics-using-magnets-to-test-for-malaria
A team of scientists in Singapore have created a new way to test for malaria within minutes using magnets. ?The new technique uses a significantly smaller blood sample to traditional blood-smear methods, and is more sensitive and less error-prone ...
Spurt in malaria cases alarms health officials
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Spurt-in-malaria-cases-alarms-health-officials/articleshow/42067321.cms
HYDERABAD: Several districts in Telangana are in the grip of malaria and other viral fevers. However, the absence of an effective mechanism to monitor and report diseases such as malaria and dengue is resulting in the state health department officials ...
Live Q&A: prevention or cure, what's the best approach in malaria control?
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2014/sep/05/live-qa-prevention-or-cure-whats-the-best-approach-in-malaria-control
The World Health Organisation's (WHO) 2013 malaria report said that despite impressive gains against the disease, the expansion of interventions to keep mosquitoes away from human skin had slowed due to ?a lack of funds to procure bed nets?.
