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How Bill Gates plans to eradicate malaria
(World health - EU Monitor 23/10/2009)
As part of its Grand Challenges Exploration programme, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has granted $100,000 to researchers hoping to use chewing gum to detect malaria indicators in saliva so that blood does not have to be drawn. The five-year health research grants aims to encourage researchers to pursue bold ideas that could lead to breakthroughs, focusing on ways to prevent and treat infectious diseases such as HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and pneumonia.
Malaria Vaccine Passes Early Test
(World health - EU Monitor 18/10/2009)
Researchers today reported encouraging results from an early study of a new malaria vaccine. The malaria vaccine seems to be safe for babies, according to the study, published online today in The Lancet. Malaria is one of the world's leading killers.
Two Malaria Drugs For Travelers Have Fewer Side Effects
(World health - EU Monitor 08/10/2009)
A new review of existing research finds that a combination drug and the common antibiotic doxycycline allow travelers to fend off malaria with the fewest side effects in areas where the parasite is resistant to a widely accepted preventive treatment. Another drug, mefloquine, has the most side effects, but it might be appropriate for people who already have taken it without problems, the review authors write.
(World health - EU Monitor 24/09/2009)
African states today launched an campaign to stop malaria from killing an estimated 1 million people on their continent each year. The objective of the 20-member African Leaders Malaria Alliance is to eradicate nearly all malaria deaths by the end of 2015. With an estimated 500 million annual cases, Africa is the continent most affected by malaria, accounting for 86 per cent of all cases and 91 per cent of all malaria deaths worldwide, President Kikwete of Tanzania said at the alliance's launch.
New malaria 'poses human threat'
(BBC 09/09/2009)
An emerging new form of malaria poses a deadly threat to humans, research has shown. It had been thought the parasite Plasmodium knowlesi infected only monkeys. But it has recently been found to be widespread in humans in Malaysia, and the latest study confirms that it can kill if not treated quickly. The work, by an international team, appears in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
'Proof' malaria began in chimps
(BBC 04/08/2009)
Scientists say they have genetic proof malaria spread by mosquitoes jumped species from chimpanzees to humans. By looking at blood samples, a US team discovered all world strains of the human malaria parasite falciparum stem from a malaria parasite in chimps. They tell Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences how the species shift probably happened 10,000 years ago when humans turned to agriculture. Man's encroachment upon the natural forest habitat of chimps is blamed.
Mosquitoes 'resist malaria drugs'
(BBC 29/05/2009)
International scientists say they have found the first evidence of resistance to the world's most effective drug for treating malaria (artemesinin). They say the trend in western Cambodia has to be urgently contained because full-blown resistance would be a global health catastrophe. Drugs are taking longer to clear blood of malaria parasites than before. This is an early warning sign of emerging resistance to a disease which kills a million people every year.
Doctors welcome malaria microchip
(BBC 24/04/2009)
Scientists from Glasgow University claim they have created a device which can detect malaria within minutes. Doctors have welcomed the development as more travellers go abroad without taking proper precautions against the disease. The flu-like symptoms can be missed until the patient is critically ill. Blood samples are placed in the microchip, which is designed to detect the strain of disease. This means the best drug can be used to treat it.
Travellers to Nigeria and Ghana continue to bear burden of malaria
(Health Protection Agency 22/04/2009)
New figures from the Health Protection Agency show that UK travellers visiting friends and family abroad, particularly in Nigeria and Ghana, continue to be the group of people most likely to acquire malaria. In 2008 there were 1,370 cases of malaria reported in the UK. For those cases where the region of travel was known, 71 per cent were in those who had visited West Africa. The countries with the highest number of cases were Nigeria (492) and Ghana (148).
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