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Malaria, Cholera, Parasites News
Malaria drug prices too high
3/11/2009Nearly a million people die from malaria each year because they cannot afford the most effective treatment and instead buy old drugs, researchers said.
Brave new world of health ideas
22/10/2009Chocolate as a malaria treatment? Cell phones to detect pneumonia? Who’d fund such outlandish research proposals? The likes of Bill Gates, no less, to the tune of $100 million.
Hope for malaria babies
17/9/2009One third of malaria cases in African infants could be avoided with a simple, safe, affordable tool.
New mozzie repellent promising
17/8/2009After searching for more than 50 years, scientists finally have discovered a number of new mosquito repellents that beat DEET, the gold standard for warding off mosquitoes.
Insect repellent bad for humans
5/8/2009One of the world's most common insect repellents acts on the central nervous system in the same way as some insecticides and nerve gases, according to a new study.
Malaria came from chimps
4/8/2009Malaria, which affects some 500 million people a year worldwide, was first transmitted to humans by chimpanzees, according to a US study.
Malaria vaccine enters human trials
29/7/2009Scientists have created a weakened strain of the malaria parasite to be used as a live vaccine against the disease, and it will be trialled in humans from early next year.
Bilharzia breakthrough hailed
16/7/2009An international team of scientists announced they had unravelled the genome of the parasitic worm that causes bilharzia, a disease that each year claims thousands of lives.
Mozzies bred at repellent factory
1/7/2009A Sri Lankan court threatened a mosquito repellent factory manager with jail for failing to destroy mosquito breeding areas on company premises to stop the spread of dengue fever.
Malaria resists some drugs
1/6/2009There's evidence that malaria in Cambodia may be resistant to front-line artemesinin drugs - and full-blown resistance would pose a serious worldwide health crisis, scientists say.
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