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 …
THE simple shield of a net soaked in insecticide could save thousands of children from becoming targets of malarial carriers, reveals a study backed by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank. Extensiv6 studies in Kenya, Ghana and Gambia where bednets impregnated with …
The Thai-Burmese border is not only home to ethnic rebels, wandering refugees and gem smugglers but also to deadly drug-resistant malarial parasites. According to experts, the region is the epicentre of drug-resistant malaria. Doctors in a Thai refugee camp in Mae La, are racing against time to develop better drugs …
THE wonder herb from the Little Andamans - home to the Onge fribals found to be a sure-fire antidote to the deadly malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum, remains in zthe eye of the storm (Down To, Earth" Vol 4i No 16) :nd the imbroglio continues even as state governments in various …
A MAN in Connecticut died recently of a newly identified tick-borne disease called human granulocytic erlichiosis,, caused by a hitherto unknown bacte rium. A student in New York contracted a serious case of hanta infection, caused by a rare virus carried by r9dents. There was a fresh outbreak ofthe deadly …
MALARIA, the dreaded killer disease, is staging a comeback with a vengeance. Thought to have been controlled to a large extent if not eradicated altogether, its recurring presence today, has put a formidable question mark on the methods used to eliminate it. The spotlight has returned to the well-known but …
A NEW herbal drug developed by scientists at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), could not have come a moment sooner for those trying to grapple with the menace of malaria. The drug, Arteether, has been derived from a Chinese herb, Artemisia annua, known as Quinghosou in Chinese. it …
SOUTH Bihar is reeling under the attack of mosquitoes. A malignant and drugresistant malaria has struck on an epidemic scale, particularly in the tribal areas. According to unofficial estimates, the disease claims nearly 10,000 lives every year. No official statistics are available for 1995. According to C P Thakur, professor …
There is growing evidence that the recent outbreak of the malaria (plasmodium falciparum) epidemic in Calcutta is related to the clogged drainage system of the city. And this is because the state government has been reclaiming the East Calcutta Wetlands since the '60s. Some citizens, at the initiative of the …
The Centre has been accused by the Health Organization (WHO) of Oww" up malaria figures in the coun ie Orlov, an adviser to the lwslow"We the shocking revelations number of malaria deaths as by the National Malaria d Programme (NmEP), belies the ground reality. The NMEP claimed there were only …
Africa is hardly synonymous with world class science. However, there are occasional islands of excellence such as the Malaria Research and Training Centre (MRTC) in Bamako, Mali. The principal activity of the MRTC is tracking the spread of resistance to available drugs. Among its achievements is a method for testing …
THE threat of malaria has been an omnipresent phenomenon in Assam and the Northeast, but the disease struck in the region with particular virulence early this year. Epidemic-hit Sonitpur witnessed a typical government response to the barrage of critical reports in the press: the chopping block was readied; the health …
Three independent US resm teams trying to uncover the strau adopted by the malaria parasite sneak past the immune defenses the host, have converged on I same group of genes. Russell Howard, Santa Ch biotech company and Louis Mil and Thomas Wellems, National institute of Allergy and Infectiv Diseases, showed …
LISSOME Seeta Mahato, 21, married last year, is the healing and humane touch in down and out Hiramiya village, tucked away in the backward Samastipur district of Bihar. Lissome is a lady health worker (lhw). And her team has worked wonders. "In just 6 months, we reduced the spate of …
SCIENTISTS have now found a way to render "killer" malaria viruses impotent. Researchers based in the Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford University and other research bodies in the us have identified a family of genes which are thought to be responsible for people dying from the disease. There are …
With quinine-based drugs, traditionally sought to treat malaria, failing to contain the disease anymore, scientists of the Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (cimap), based in Lucknow, have now developed a new drug in their war against the disease. Certain strains of the malarial parasite have developed resistance to …
The scourge of malaria is terrorising the tribals of Bangladesh's border areas, killing them like flies; Joyrampur's (Mymensingh district) Garo tribals are no exception. Fifteen hundred people living on the borders have already fallen prey to the disease since it broke out early this year. Abject poverty and a woeful …
Paluther, an anti-malarial drug developed by Chinese scientists in 1973, promises new hope to the millions suffering from the killer disease. On trial for the past 3 years in Tanzania and Kenya, the drug is expected to replace chloroquine and other anti-malarials in use in the 2 countries. Shrikant Bhatt, …
THE monsoon has struck Assam before schedule, bringing flashfloods, forming mosquito- rearing waterpools, and killing hundreds. An unprecedented toll in April of 240 malarial deaths in 12 districts, has sparked off a debate about the efficacy of the present drug regimen. The Union government's righteous anti-state government stand stems from …
The beautiful Seven Sisters have a deadly commonality. All the 7 north-eastern states have been found to be endemic to malaria. This has been reported last fortnight by the expert committee on malaria which was constituted after the epidemic in Rajasthan last year. The committee, headed by the former director …
RESEARCH at the Delhi-based Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS) have developed an ecofriendly and biodegradable insecticide from marigold flowers. Scientists have found that 2 compounds present in the flower -- alphateriophene, or alpha-T, and erythrosin-B -- are effective against the larvae of the malaria-causing Anopheles mosquito as …
