Malaria

Cerebral Malaria: Symptoms and Treatment
Cerebral malaria is a dangerous form of malaria which affects the brain. Children are more vulnerable to this often fatal disease than adults. To know about cerebral malaria, its symptoms and the treatment for this disease, read on...

Plasmodium Life Cycle
The plasmodium life cycle completes by invading two hosts, namely, mosquito and human. This parasite is transmitted to humans through mosquito bites. Once within the human body, plasmodium completes liver stage and erythrocytic stage.

History of Malaria
Malaria is an infectious disease that is widespread in the tropical regions of the world. The disease is caused by protozoan parasites and is recognized by the World Health Organization as one of the most common infectious diseases in the world...

Malaria Prevention (Malaria Prophylaxis)
Malaria is one of the world's most common infectious diseases. How can you prevent it? To know the measures taken for malaria prevention, read on...

Sickle Cell and Malaria
Severe sickling of red blood cells cause death in childhood. However, a high incidence of sickle cell trait (in which some of the red blood cells become sickle shaped) in populations in whom malaria is endemic, hints at a relationship between the sickle cell and malaria. It is believed by some as an example of natural selection at play...

GlaxoSmithKline Using Satellites to Fight Malaria in Africa
Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline is using a high-tech approach to solve the problem of connecting their healthcare network in African regions that have no phones and electricity.

Malaria Disease: Malaria Symptoms, Causes and Treatment
Malaria is a parasitic disease that causes flu like symptoms, and without treatment death can ensue because of further complications. It is better to take the preventive measures by identifying its causes.

DDT is back - fighting malaria - but is there a better way?
The Bald Eagle was nearly extinct in the lower 48 U.S. states by the middle of the 20th century, pushed to the brink by its sensitivity to DDT.

World Leaders Announce $3bn Plan to End Malaria Deaths By 2015
Ambitious plan announced after unprecedented funding from donors including the World Bank and the Gates Foundation

$3bn Ploughed Into Fight Against Malaria
World leaders announce plan to end all malaria deaths by 2015 with introduction of vaccine

Malaria Deaths Halved in Seven African Countries
Successes follow intensive drive to protect people from disease, World Health Organization says

Study Finds Spending on Malaria Prevention is Woefully Inadequate
Funding would need to increase by up to 450% to achieve the UN's Millennium Development Goal to halt and then reverse the rise in malaria by 2015

Health: Un 'to Miss' Malaria Target
Uneven spread of funding in challenge to halt and reverse spread of HIV and other diseases

Malaria: New Hope For The Number 2 Biggest Killer By Infection On The Planet
Malaria is the second biggest cause of death by infection on Earth. Trials in both Africa and the USA demonstrate that a new advanced colloidal silver solution can cure full blown malaria in an average of 5 days.

Cheap Anti-allergy Drug Offers Hope of Cure for Malaria
A drug developed to treat allergies has been identified by US researchers as a potential cure for malaria. Tests in mice show that the antihistamine astemizole also kills the malaria parasite.

Malaria Drug Off Market Over Side-effect Fears
Drug once lauded as offering new hope for Africa withdrawn by the British manufacturer

Kidney Drug Could Save Children From Malaria Brain Damage
Breakthrough research could help millions suffering from world's deadliest disease

The Enemy is Malaria. The Cure is £25
Children at the clinic in Katine are too sick to cry. The people of this Ugandan village urgently need your donations for vital drugs and mosquito nets

Vaccine Trial Cuts Malaria Cases Among Babies By Two-thirds
No serious side-effects from test in Mozambique· Jab also offers protection to men and older children

Malaria: Gm Mosquitoes Offer New Hope for Millions
Controversial strategy would mean releasing laboratory-created insects into wild.

Banned Pesticide Backed for Malaria Control
· World Health Organisation urges DDT's reintroduction · Environmentalists warn of long-term cancer concerns

World Bank Accused of Deception Over Malaria Funding
· Campaign leader is unfit for task, say doctors · Death toll prevention claims 'unfounded'

Drug Firms Could 'destroy Effect of Malaria Pills'
· WHO warning angers pharmaceutical bosses · UN agency criticised over disease control failures

US Research 'endangered Amazon Villagers'
Health officials in Brazil have launched an investigation after claims that at least 10 impoverished Brazilians from an Amazon village may have contracted malaria while being used as human "guinea pigs" during a study by an American university.

Resistance Fears As 'life-saver' Malaria Drug Loses Potency
A new class of malaria drugs that has been billed as a life-saver for millions of children in Africa and Asia is already losing its potency, scientists warn today in a paper that also suggests the drugs may be being used without proper regulation or controls in some countries.

Malaria Vaccine Trial Brings Hope
The prospects for checking the pandemic growth of malaria looked brighter yesterday after scientists reported that young children in Mozambique were still enjoying protection from the vaccine they are testing after 18 months.

Bill Gates Gives $258m to World Battle Against Malaria
Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates last night gave $258m (£145m) to the fight against malaria, branding the rich world's efforts in tackling the disease "a disgrace".

Malaria Crisis May Doom Africa Progress, Mps Say
The UK's plans for a prosperous Africa are doomed to failure unless malaria, the world's most lethal disease, is tackled as a global health crisis, a report warns today.

UN Malaria Project Damned As Failure
The UN-led partnership to stamp out malaria is a failure and may even have caused harm over the seven years since it began, an editorial in the Lancet says.

Deadly Malaria Infects Half a Billion
More than half a billion people - nearly double previous estimates - were infected by the deadliest form of malaria in 2002, scientists reveal in a report out today.

Scientists Herald Malaria Breakthrough
Trials in Mozambique point to potential of vaccine. After 50 years of failure, a vaccine against malaria could be in sight, raising hopes of slashing the death toll from a disease that kills more than a million people, mostly babies and pregnant women, every year.

3,000 Die Each Day From Malaria
Malaria is killing 3,000 people a day and the toll is rising, according to figures released today. Malaria kills more than 1 million people a year, 90% in Africa, according to a report in the British Medical Journal. A concentrated effort is desperately needed, say public health experts...

Scientists Lift Hopes in Malaria War
European scientists have identified a new way to stop malaria in its tracks. Instead of preventing the malaria parasite from infecting humans, they could instead stop the parasite from infecting the mosquito that spreads the lethal disease. Researchers are working on prophylactics,...

How Rice Farming Brought Malaria to Burundi
The farmers of Karuzi province were among Africa's poorest, but they had won at least one of nature's lotteries: for as long as anyone could remember their corner of Burundi had been free of malaria. Geography and climate deterred malarial mosquitoes from the cool highlands, sparing the...

Gates Gives £100m to Wipe Out Malaria
World's richest man tackles killer of 1 million a year. What do you do with your money if you are the richest man in the world? Go to Africa and find a cure for a killer disease, Bill Gates decided yesterday.

Spend more to save children from malaria, west urged
Malaria, already responsible for at least a fifth of all deaths of children under five in Africa, will continue to increase its hold on the continent unless Britain and the US provide more effective, but more expensive, medicines, it was claimed yesterday.

Breakthrough for Scientists in Fight Against Malaria Parasite
Researchers have opened the way for new treatments of malaria, the scourge that threatens 500 million worldwide and kills a child in Africa every 30 seconds. Scientists in Thailand and Edinburgh have worked out why some drugs work against the malaria parasite, and some do not. In October...

Pledges to Fight Malaria Not Kept
Millions of children's lives are being lost or blighted because pledges to take action to curb the spread of malaria have not been kept, either by heads of state in poor countries or by wealthy donor states, a leading economist claimed yesterday. Jeffrey Sachs, special adviser to the UN...

Complete Dna Coding Opens New Ways to Beat Malaria
In a dramatic step against one of the world's deadliest diseases, geneticists today publish the complete DNA codes of both the malaria parasite and its carrier, the malaria mosquito. The genetic research offers new ways to hit the world's most dangerous insect, and stop its parasite at...

UK Team Develops Malaria Vaccine
Researchers in the Gambia have begun injecting hundreds of people with a new vaccine against malaria, the mosquito-borne illness which kills more than two million people a year.

Regina Rabinovich: Africa's economic problems have a medical solution
Infectious diseases cost the continent billions of dollars a year. Malaria kills three children per minute. This amounts to a quiet global catastrophe.

Malaria Hits British Soldiers in Kabul
Doctors have been advised to look out for malaria in British service personnel returning from Afghanistan after six soldiers contracted the disease. Four were serving with the international security assistance force (Isaf) in Kabul and two were camped at the Bagram airfield north of the...

Scientists Attack Mosquito Genes to Avert 3m Deaths From Malaria
US scientists have genetically modified a malarial mosquito to block transmission of the world's most dangerous parasite.

Tests on Monkeys Raise Hopes of Cheap Cure for Malaria
Scientists have raised hopes of developing a cheap new cure for malaria after successful laboratory tests on monkeys. Low doses of the treatment are said to have cured animals deliberately infected with the disease. The drug works by preventing malaria parasites from reproducing...