WHO backs DDT for malaria control
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In a reversal of 30 years of policy, the World Health Organization endorses DDT spraying for malaria control.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of Seattle has donated $43 million dollars grant dollars to Institute for OneWorld Health, a nonprofit drug company, to aid in the development of cheaper malaria treatment.
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The worldâs most promising malaria vaccine has been shown to work in infants less than a year old, the most vulnerable group.
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There is progress toward a vaccine to prevent malaria. Researchers have been testing an experimental vaccine in Mozambique. This is what they have found: In a group of one thousand six hundred
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Scientists develop a synthetic version of a herb-based drug to treat malaria.
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Harris County health officials raised concerns last week when they suggested pesticides that are safe enough to spray in residential neighborhoods might no longer kill mosquitoes within a decade.
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First Lady Laura Bush threw the White House&#39;s support Wednesday behind Mozambique&#39;s war against its biggest killer, malaria, as she inspected US-funded projects and announced further financial support.
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Genetically modified cotton and maize with a built-in insecticide is better for the environment than conventional crops sprayed with insecticide, according to research that pulled together data from 42 different studies conducted across the world.
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More poor countries may soon be pumping up their arsenal against malaria with DDT, the pesticide long banned in the United States.
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Scientists have taken an important step towards developing an effective malaria vaccine, announcing in today&#39;s edition of the Lancet that a candidate vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline will protect a significant number of children.
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The French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique face a &quot;health disaster&quot; with soaring cancer and infertility rates because of the massive use of banned pesticides on banana plantations, a top cancer specialist warned Monday.
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The World Health Organization reversed a 30-year-old policy yesterday and declared its support for indoor use of the pesticide DDT to control mosquitoes in regions where malaria is a major health problem.
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Bill and Melinda Gates appealed to more than 300 malaria scientists and policy makers at a forum Wednesday to take the risky step of seeking to eradicate the disease worldwide instead of just keeping it under control.
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Encouraging phase II results of a trial to test the efficacy of a malaria vaccine for young children is published in this week&#39;s issue of THE LANCET (pp 1380, 1411).
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News of an effective vaccine against malaria being developed is certainly a shot in the arm for the fight against this disease which kills over a million children and infects an estimated 300 million annually.
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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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Gordon Brown says the UK will back a multi-million pound battle to ensure poorest get a new malaria vaccine.