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4 days ago · “Malaria's growing drug resistance to artemisinin, the current last-line antimalarial drug, is a global crisis that demands new strategies and therapeutics. The mechanisms behind this resistance are complex and multifaceted, but our study reveals a critical link.
3 days ago · In 2020, approximately 122 million pregnancies — about half of all pregnancies worldwide that year — occurred in areas where people were at risk of contracting malaria. A 2023 study estimated ...
5 days ago · As all patients recruited in this study were malaria-negative, investments in the diagnosis and treatment of zoonotic diseases are key in lowering disease burden, improving health outcomes and ...
14 hours ago · Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates. Human malaria causes symptoms that typically include fever, fatigue, vomiting, and headaches. In severe cases, it can cause jaundice, seizures, coma, or death. Symptoms usually begin 10 to 15 days after being bitten by an infected Anopheles mosquito.
4 days ago · Complications. Knowing the life cycle of malaria and its symptoms is far from enough. Malaria is so lethal not only because it is a deadly disease itself, but also because it can lead many other lethal complications.
1 day ago · JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan got its first batch of a new malaria vaccine on Friday from the U.N. health agency, an important step in efforts to battle a disease that is the biggest killer of children in this African country. The more than 645,000 doses of the R21 malaria vaccine received will be distributed across 28 counties with ...
5 days ago · Malaria is caused by the unicellular Plasmodium parasite. The parasites enter the human blood stream after the bite of a bloodsucking Anopheles mosquito. The parasite undergoes different life cycles in humans and mosquito. Out of the five Plasmodium species that infect humans Plasmodium falciparum causes the most serious courses of the disease.
