Malaria
Malaria is one of the oldest known infections. It is also the world's most deadly tropical parasitic disease. It kills more people than any other communicable disease except tuberculosi...
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Malaria
Definition
Malaria is a serious, infectious disease spread by certain kinds of mosquitoes. It is common in tropical climates and is characterized by chills, fevers, and an enlarged spleen. The...
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Malaria
Malaria is a group of parasitic diseases common in tropical and subtropical areas. Approximately 300 million cases occur annually worldwide, and one to nearly three million people die of malar...
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Malaria
Malaria is a group of parasitic diseases common in tropical and subtropical areas. Approximately 300 million cases occur annually worldwide, and one to nearly three million people die of malar...
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Malaria
Malaria is a disease that affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide. In the developing world malaria contributes to a high infant mortality rate and a heavy loss of work time. Malaria...
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Davos, Switzerland (dpa) - Global health and business leaders
announced a major effort to scale-up malaria control which aims to
save 3.5 million lives in the next five year...
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Kenya cut child deaths from malaria by more than 40 percent over five years by handing out insecticide-treated mosquito nets, U.N. and Kenyan officials said Thursday.Experts hope to replicate the s...
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Malaria is fueling the spread of AIDS in Africa by boosting the HIV in people's bodies for weeks at a time, says a study that pins down the deadly interplay between the dual scourges.It's a vicious...
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The White House turned its attention Wednesday to preventing and eradicating malaria, a big killer of African children.But it wasn't all serious business: President Bush pounded on the drums for a ...
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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 keepi...
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In one New Guinea hilltop village the message was rooted deep in lore: If you hunt in the valley below and sleep there overnight, evil spirits will possess you, you'll become sick, and you'll die.I...
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ROCKVILLE, Md. (Reuters) - In a nondescript office
park tucked between a hospital and a strip mall thrive hundreds
of thousands of the most infectious malaria-carrying mosquitoes
ever born. They w...
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LONDON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - African babies -- the group most
at risk of dying from malaria -- may be protected against the
mosquito-borne disease by an experimental vaccine, researchers
said on Wed...
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First lady Laura Bush picked vegetables and handed out mosquito nets Tuesday to emphasize that fighting AIDS in Africa also means tackling some of the continent's even more widespread afflictions _...
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Major initiative launched to prevent malaria
