India topped countries in the South-East Asia region for the most number of malaria cases and deaths in 2022, according to this report published by the World Health Organization (WHO). Each year, WHO’s World malaria report provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of trends in malaria control and elimination across …
a malaria vaccine tried out in Mali in 2003 was not suited to protect people from the pathogen prevalent in the area, according to a joint study by researchers in Mali and the us. The researchers studied samples from people in Bandiagara, a rural town in northeastern Mali, and found …
The World Health Organization (WHO) has calculated that by 2020 human-triggered climate change could kill 300,000 people worldwide every year. By 2000, in fact, climate change was already responsible for 150,000 excess deaths annually
is another menacing insecticide ready for a run? Scientists from Rochester University's Mayo Clinic in the us claim to have made a breakthrough in creating a pesticide that can kill mosquitoes without affecting people. The Rochester researchers have identified two specific amino acid residues in the enzyme acetylcholinesterase (ache) that …
• Researchers in Kenya and Britain say they are creating a global map to pinpoint locations where malaria is most likely to strike. They say it will help fight the mosquito-borne disease by enabling individual countries to work out infection rates and required drugs. The map should be complete within …
Who is now pushing for the use of pesticide ddt ( dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane ) in its malaria control programme , which the industrialised countries like the us banned 30 years back. Following the recommendation, meant particularly to target developing countries like Africa, the us government has said it is prepared to …
as the Simlipal National Park in Orissa's Mayurbhanj district closes during monsoon to protect wildlife, it turns into a graveyard for its human inhabitants, reports an independent working group on protected areas. In June, an infant's death inside the sanctuary sparked off an investigation by this group of local ngos …
after the monsoon deluge, Mumbai has witnessed an outbreak of diseases such as malaria, dengue and leptospirosis, taking the death toll to 68 on August 2. The pace at which people are dying is alarming. Besides, Mumbai has recorded an increase in water-borne diseases like typhoid, hepatitis and gastroenteritis, caused …
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, may have hit upon a way to make malaria treatment easily accessible. They have found that a combination of curcumin from turmeric (a common spice in India) and artemisinin from Artemisia annua (a Chinese herb) is highly effective against drug-resistant malaria …
climate change is forcing plants and animals away from their native habitats to more congenial ones. A recent survey of plants in the uk found that species favouring higher temperature like orchids and ferns that used to be found in southern parts of the country are now flourishing in the …
Ravaged by malaria, Assam is struggling to control the disease. Like in most other parts of the country, the health infrastructure is in a state of terminal decay. Forget the remote villages, even the district health centres are in shambles. Check out Lakhimpur district
Though there are more than 160 species of the plasmodium parasite, only four infect humans. Amongst the two common ones, Pf is more closely related to the parasite that causes malaria in chimpanzees and birds. Pv, in contrast, is more like the one that affects macaques, a tropical monkey. Chimpanzee …
The World Bank has come up with a Global Strategy and Booster Program for the years 2005-2010 to control malaria. But Amir Attaran of the Institute of Population Health and Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada, has argued in The Lancet that the bank does not have the expertise …
Malaria is transmitted by the genus Anopheles. India has 58 species, of which six are important: An culicifacies, An fluviatilis, An minimus, An sundaicus , An stephensi and An dirus. In the northeast, An minimus and An dirus are the major vectors
a silent shift has been taking place in India's malaria profile. The malarial parasite Plasmodium vivax is no more the dominant cause of the disease. Plasmodium falciparum is taking over. This is common knowledge. Even the government knows. But what is not that clued into the public domain is the …
the Assam government has sounded a health alert across the state following an outbreak of malaria that has claimed at least 35 lives and affected more than 20,000 people over the past month. Unofficial estimates put the toll at around 80. Behind the outbreak is the laxity of the administration …
The government is worried that malaria might spread among the Indian troops deployed along the India-Bhutan border. It has started providing soldiers with insecticide-treated mosquito nets and mosquito repellents. During the past five years, at least 50 army and paramilitary troopers have died of malaria in Assam. Mosquitoes have also …
green mussels (Perna viridis), found commonly in the Goa seawater, can yield malaria drugs, say scientists. Two active molecules have been isolated from the mussel by researchers from the National Institute of Oceanography (nio), Goa; the National Centre for Cell Science, Pune; and the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and …
help is at hand to meet the demand for artemisinin, the only medicine for drug-resistant malaria. Researchers at the University of California in Berkeley, usa, have introduced genes from the Chinese herb Artemisia annua (sweet wormwood) into yeast so that it produces high amounts of artemisinic acid
climate forecasting systems can help predict malarial outbreaks, particularly in Africa where the disease is acute, five months in advance, says a recent study. Conducted by researchers at Botswana's National Malaria Control Programme (nmcp), Columbia University, usa, University of Liverpool and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ecmwf) in …
