Malaria has long menaced the world, but gains have occurred. Those efforts could now be stymied by budget cuts, however. Here’s how a disease that knows no borders could widen its deadly reach.
A second Malaria causing mosquito has been discovered in South Africa .
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Mosquitoes are controlled by insecticide treated nets to curb the spread of Malaria. The nets which are hung over beds can be reused after serving its purpose.
Artemisinin-based combination therapy is the first line recommended malaria treatment.
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Simple steps can lower your risk of bringing home traveller’s diarrhoea, respiratory infections and mosquito-borne diseases from your holiday.
Children living in areas with poor sanitation and hygiene account for 60% of people around the world infected with intestinal worms.
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There’s a growing body of evidence that shows we could be doing more for the close to billion children at risk of intestinal worms. We simply cannot afford to ignore it.
Pathogens like malaria get inside our cells - so an antibiotic to combat them needs to as well.
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Precision public health has the potential to transform the global health sphere by ensuring that the right interventions are brought to the right people in the right places.
Malaria nets are being used as fishing nets in some parts of Africa.
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The burden of communicable disease is declining in Africa and life expectancy is increasing. But non-communicable diseases like diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer are wreaking havoc.
Mosquitoes are repelled by chicken odours and will actively fly outside when they encounter them.
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Rickard Ignell, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Anopheles arabiensis is the world’s most common, malaria-carrying mosquito. Now it’s emerged that chickens emit an odour that can repel the deadly insects.
By working in real time together, we can create something robust and inexpensive in a short time frame.
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With the right investment, an open source drug discovery system might compete with the traditional pharmaceutical industry to deliver the drugs we need.
Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases