2.3 million doses of Mosquirix have been administered to children in Kenya, Ghana, and Malawi in a large-scale pilot programme (AFP Photo) Malaria vaccine Mosquirix now available for children in […]
Faizal The Jakarta Post Jakarta / Tue, October 13, 2020 / Anopheles mosquito (Shutterstock/Somboon Bunproy) 0 SHARES Transmission of COVID-19 in Indonesia has continued unabated and expanded […]
By Markus Spoerndli Jun 6, 2020 Jeremy Herren and his team in Kenya have discovered a microbe that eliminates the malaria pathogen in mosquitoes. (Evan Teal) When Jeremy Herren […]
Source: BBC Deep in the Andean rainforest, the bark from an endangered tree once cured malaria and powered the British Empire. Now, its derivatives are at the centre of a […]
AFP September 16, 2018 The quakes and aftershocks since July have killed about 500 people and forced hundreds of thousands into evacuation shelters or tents Among the 137 infected […]
AFP news@thelocal.ch @thelocalswitzer 17 April 2018 A health worker and a mother try to get down the fever of a boy with malaria in the Democratic Republic of Congo in […]
Source: Financial Times and SwissInfo.ch By Clive Cookson and Science Editor The first new malaria drug to emerge for 20 years is beginning clinical trials in nine countries across Africa […]
breakthrough science In countries across sub-Saharan Africa, rates of malaria are going down. Fewer people contract the disease, and fewer of them die. So why is fighting malaria still so […]
Ghana, Kenya and Malawi to begin pilot scheme trialling experimental treatment next year Cara Anna Three African countries have been chosen to test the world’s firstmalaria vaccine, the World Health […]
Huff Post — Technology is “amazing,” Bill Gates told the Financial Times in a recent interview, but it’s not going to save the world. Speaking with the Times’ Richard Waters about what it’s going to take the make the planet a better place, the Microsoft co-founder said that though improvements in technology […]
Mr. Aslam Nasir (ex-Pakistani, now Australian, currently living and working in Tanzania) sent to me his ‘home treatment for Malaria and Food Poisoning’. Worth trying! Malaria: Every time you feel that your fever is rising drink one liter of water immediately and within 5 to 10 minutes you should sweat […]
Source: BBC News By: Fergus Walsh We all like reports of dramatic medical and scientific breakthroughs but the reality is that most developments are incremental. As a result, important issues can get overlooked. Take malaria. Deaths from the parasitic infection – which is spread by the bites of infected mosquitoes […]