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Original Technorati articles tagged “malaria”

• in Business
  Reddit Interviews Microsoft's Bill Gates
  Bill Gates Gave A Rare Interview On Reddit
  by joshner / on Feb 12, 2013
• in Technorati Women
  Promising Experimental Vaccine Reduces Malaria in African Children by Half
  Vaccine Reduces Malaria in African Children by Half.
  by vicfizzlebottom / on Oct 19, 2011
• in Technology
  Student Project Use Smartphone Camera to Diagnose Malaria, Save Lives
  Can a smartphone app save millions of lives?
  by wmpoweruser / on Apr 10, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “malaria”

 

• USAID and Merck Put Skin in the Health Finance Game

  
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  USAID and Merck have joined other donors and companies in a massive ramp-up of an existing public health financing program built to help countries that need health supplies get more bang for their buck. Read more >>
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• Outbreak of mosquito-borne diseases reported in South

  
  AIT News, Thailand news — Authority: 155
  BANGKOK, 20 May 2013 (NNT) – Southern residents are being warned of Chikungunya and dengue fever viruses, which can both be transmitted through a mosquito bite, while more than 200 dengue patients have been reported in Trang province. According to Director-General of the Department of Medical Sciences Dr. Nipon ...
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• Chinese drug giant tackles drug counterfeiting with mobile service

  
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  Guilin Pharmaceuticals has advanced a system to combat use of fake antimalarial drugs. The Chinese drugmaker has launched an SMS-based system for patients in Africa to check whether their antimalarial meds are the real thing.
  3 days ago

• 15 thoughts on eliminating neglected tropical diseases

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  We summarise the points made by a live chat panel on how the global health community can work towards eliminating NTDs Dr Paul Emerson, trachoma control programme director, The Carter Centre , Atlanta, USA NTDs arent as remote or obscure as many think: Trachoma and worms used to be endemic to the US and ...
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• Far Cry computer games

  
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  Far Cry Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon – it’s lethal cyber-shooter that takes place on the beautiful island teeming with evil. Welcome to the future, as he is shown to you on the Adventure VHS-cassettes in the 80 th year! Outside 2007 and you play as Sergeant Rex Colt kiberspetsnazovtsa fourth model, which is fighting ...
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• Malaria resistant Mosquitoes through Wolbachia bacterium: A New Hope

  
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  Introducing Wolbachia: Recent Laboratory experiments showed significant decrease in the infection of Anopheles Mosquitoes that are infected with a bacterium called Wolbachia to be infected with Plasmodium parasite. This finding could be one of the most important method to develop malaria resistant mosquitoes ...
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• Uganda launches largest malaria prevention campaign

  
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  SOROTI, Uganda – The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced today that it is supporting Uganda in the distribution of over 15.5 million long lasting insecticide-treated nets,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Using bacteria to stop malaria

  
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  Mosquitoes are deadly efficient disease transmitters. Research conducted at Michigan State University, however, demonstrates that they also can be equally adept in curing diseases such as malaria. A study in the current issue of Science shows that the transmission of malaria via mosquitoes to humans can be interrupted ...
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• Using bacteria to stop malaria

  
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  MSU research shows that the transmission of malaria via mosquitoes to humans can be interrupted by using a strain of the bacteria Wolbachia. Mosquitoes are deadly efficient disease transmitters. Research conducted at Michigan State University (MSU), however, demonstrates that they also can be equally adept in curing ...
  1 week ago

• Fight Against Malaria Takes Odd New Turn

  
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  Filed under: Africa , Asia , Oceania , Australia , Travel Health , Middle East A new study has found a possible way to stop at least one species of mosquito from giving you malaria - by infecting them with a special strain of bacteria. Researchers have found that infecting mosquitoes with the Wolbachia ...
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• Bacterial infection in mosquitoes renders them immune to malaria parasites

  
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  "Scientists funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have established an inheritable bacterial infection in malaria-transmitting Anopheles mosquitoes that renders them immune to malaria parasites. Specifically, the scientists infected the ...
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• Bacteria Used To Fight Malaria

  
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  Michigan State University researchers have found the transmission of malaria via mosquitoes to humans can be interrupted by using a strain of the bacteria Wolbachia in the insects. Wolbachia bacteria is used to produce insects that could pass the infection on to their offspring. Female mosquitoes that carried ...
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• New discovery may be step toward ending malaria

  
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  Worldwide elimination of malaria would save hundreds of thousands of lives each year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). But eradication remains elusive, because the parasite that causes the disease can evolve to withstand the effects of new malaria drugs and become drug-resistant. Researchers, ...
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• Adding Vaccines to Intensify the Assault on Malaria

  
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  The international community has made phenomenal progress against malaria, but the gains are fragile. Read more >>
  2 weeks ago

• Mortein Leads Renewed Effort to Kick Out Malaria

  
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  M alaria remains the number one cause of deaths in Nigeria, ahead of the most dreaded diseases such as Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS), stroke, coronary heart disease and diabetes. According to available statistics, children under five years and pregnant women are reported ...
  2 weeks ago

• A bit more of Malawi

  
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  Malaria really is a HORRIBLE thing! Even between the fever and cold chills, you just feel like crap! I had few side effects from the medication other than nausea and tinnitus, but it still wasn’t pleasant! It was also terrible timing because we had SO been looking forward to Lake Malawi, and I was feeling so sick ...
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• Malaria: Targets and Drugs for All Stages

  
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  Malaria is an ancient enemy. Its treatments predate modern drug discovery, most notably the use of the Qinghao plant in ancient China (2nd century BC to 340 CE) and Peruvian bark in the early 17th century, the medicines from which are now known to be artemisinin and quinine respectively. Calls for the eradication ...
  2 weeks ago

• Climate changes could bring malaria to the UK

  
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  Health experts warn of growing threat from exotic diseases . . . → Read More: Climate changes could bring malaria to the UK Related Posts: Malaria Declining Despite Climate Change Schmallenberg virus could spread to sheep across the UK Climate change will extend hay fever season by six weeks,… ...
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• Catching Mosquitoes, not Fish: Returning Bed Nets to their Proper Use in the DRC

  
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  It is 1 p.m. in the village of Kavimvira. The sun is high over Lake Tanganyika, at the foot of the Mitumba Mountain, in scenic South Kivu
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• Solar Panels Help Prevent Malaria in Kenya

  
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  Rusinga Island, located in the eastern part of Lake Victoria in Kenya, is having solar panels installed on homes to not only provide electricity but to aid in the fight against malaria. Malaria kills an estimated 1.2 million people per year and is a big problem for the 30,000 inhabitants of Rusinga Island. If ...
  2 weeks ago

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