Making Africa a Malaria Isolation Ward
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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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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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Nurse Carolyne Mujibi went to work in Kenya&#039;s largest hospital after her father died there &amp;#151; from nursing neglect, she believes. Too much work, too little pay and an assault by a frustrated patient chipped away at her desire to try to make a difference in Kenya.
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Clinical tests of a product candidate to be a vaccine against malaria, the RTS/ASO2A, that were carried out by the Manhica Health Reaserach Centyre, in the southern Mozambican province of Maputo, revealed its efficacy and safety to reduce this disease
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Clinical trials are under way in the UK to test how effectively it combats the increasingly drug-resistant malaria parasite. The drug is a synthetic, simpler version of a traditional
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Scientists have created a synthetic drug which could offer new hope in the fight against malaria.
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A pioneering vaccine can protect a  significant proportion of African children against malaria,  scientists said on Thursday, boosting hopes that the  mosquito-borne disease may one day be conquered.
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British physicists have shared computer time with biologists around the world in an effort to combat malaria, which kills one million people annually.
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&quot;Development of an effective vaccine against malaria is feasible&quot;, declare the researchers who have been working on just such a vaccine in the southern Mozambican district of Manhica.
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WASHINGTON: The World Health Organisation, Doctors Without Borders and other agencies have begun rushing medical teams, generators and other equipment to provide safe drinking water and sanitation and reduce threats of infectious-disease outbreaks in the
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For the first time, a vaccine in a clinical trial has convincingly shielded children in Africa from contracting malaria. Researchers hope the results will pave the way for routine jabs in countries stricken
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A transport system used by the malaria parasite to infect blood cells could be a target for new treatments, scientists hope.
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After more than two decades of effort, researchers say they have found the first vaccine that is effective against malaria. Trials in Africa showed that the vaccine blocked almost half of new infections in
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Scientists are one step closer to a vaccine against one of the world&#39;s most devastating diseases. Malaria causes more than 300 million cases of illness
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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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Mosquitoes' thirst for sugar could prove to be the answer for eliminating malaria and other mosquito-transmitted diseases, say scientists.
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A simple, inexpensive and surprisingly powerful combination of treatments all but wiped out malaria in a group of H.I.V.-positive children in a study, scientists are reporting.