In Indonesia, a race to head off malaria threat
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- Health officials plan to go door to door and tent to tent with mosquito-killing spray guns beginning today to head off a looming threat that one specialist says could kill 100,000 more people around the tsunami disaster zone: malaria.
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As local officials struggled to account for the dead and missing, another challenge began to loom: heading off disease.
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Coming soon to a jungle near you -- mosquitoes genetically engineered so they cannot give people malaria. But this time scientists want to do it right.
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In just over a decade Indonesia has managed to cut by half its mortality rate for children aged under five but the country still has work to do to tackle regional trouble spots, the United Nations said.
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As the death toll in Sunday&#39;s tsunamis continues to rise, health authorities are struggling to prevent the outbreak of diseases in the worst affected areas.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - An army of aid workers  raced on Tuesday to supply food and water to millions of  tsunami victims and the United Nations warned a death toll of  150,000 would climb as more bodies are found and disease stalks  survivors.
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Indonesia began immunizing  quake survivors against measles on Wednesday and helicopters  swept over disaster sites on Java island to look for isolated  victims, but help was still too slow for many.
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Indonesia has launched a campaign to inoculate 14 million children against measles which kills an Indonesian child every 20 minutes, or 30,000 a year.
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JAKARTA : Indonesia faces testing times ahead in a month when the country&#39;s top concerns of terror and politics have come to a head, with a deadly suicide bomb attack just days before the last leg of mammoth elections.
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Travellers to Africa from South East Asia and South America should be screened and treated for drug-resistant malaria, experts advise.
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NEW YORK - In a new study, researchers present molecular evidence to show that malaria parasites in Africa that are resistant to the drug pyrimethamine actually originated in southeast Asia.
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A controversial effort to stop malaria zeroes in on mosquitoes and the parasites that live inside them.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Rescue workers raced to  get food and water to millions of tsunami survivors on Tuesday,  and struggled to clear airport runways to fly aid into regions  where giant waves washed roads away as well as people.
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Tens of thousands of tsunami survivors are at risk from diseases spread by dirty water, mosquitoes and crowding.
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DESPITE an exciting new development this week in the race to find cheaper and more effective malaria drugs, a group of scientists is urging health authorities to consider screening travellers from malaria-infested areas to prevent the spread of drug
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From the remote jungles of Papua to the sky-scrapers of Jakarta, Indonesia is staging landmark elections which will see the vast Southeast Asian archipelago choose its president for the first time.
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Tens of thousands of tsunami survivors are at risk from diseases spread by dirty water, mosquitoes and crowding, and the best medicine is large quantities of clean water