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Take stock on April 25, World Malaria Day: The international community has just two years to meet the United Nations's 2010 goal of providing protection and treatment to every person threatened by malaria. Can it be done?
April 24, 2009 |
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Volunteers in Seattle chance getting the disease in a bid to defeat it
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A subsidy program intended to drive down the cost of lifesaving malaria drugs called artemisinin-based combination therapies -- now considered the most effective treatment against the parasitic disease -- is unveiled
Features
Stephen Hoffman has given years of sweat—and lots of blood—on his quest to stop a global killer
News
In development: an artificial flower that kills pathogens in disease-carrying mosquitoes but spares the bugs
Scientists report that there are nearly 50 percent more clinical cases of malaria worldwide than previous estimates suggested
A new vaccine stimulates human immune cells to recognize and kill malaria parasites
New data shows that the RTS,S vaccine is safe and effective in infants
Devices to pump and filter water, protect against disease-carrying insects, and more
A species of jumping spider loves to feed on the specific type of mosquitoes that spread malaria
Johns Hopkins researchers are trying to stop malaria's spread by keeping mosquitoes from becoming infected with the parasite that they pass on to humans. Cynthia Graber reports
If transgenic mosquitoes immune to malaria could outcompete and replace regular mosquitoes, they could help keep people free of the disease
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