Tag: malaria
Decoy trap that smell/feel like humans help control mosquitoes
Scientists devise traps that can help in measuring mosquitoes and understanding malaria transmission
Tigers are often trapped during hunts for maneaters. Can mosquitoes be trapped...
Malaria activates natural killer cells, could lead to future therapeutics
Activation of natural killer cells by malaria parasite reveals a possible molecular target to control malaria infection in humans
Malaria - infected red blood cells...
11 S Asian nations to discuss dengue, malaria, drug access
Crucial meeting of WHO South East Asia Region will happen in Delhi next week
Intensifying action to eliminate malaria, addressing the increasing threat of dengue,...
Take steps to control dengue, malaria etc: Nadda to Kejriwal
Nadda letter to Kejriwal may not go down well with the Delhi administration
Union health minister J P Nadda has written to Delhi chief minister...
It is officially dengue, malaria, chikungunya season
Monsoons are when these mosquito borne diseases have a field day; government figures show that the numbers are already rising
It is that time of...
Bone marrow home of malaria bug, finds Harvard study
Plasmodium vivax, the malaria parasite resides in bone marrow while being undetectable in blood
A Harvard study published in mBio, the journal of the American...
Model ICMR project in Odisha achieves 85% decline in malaria cases
Odisha has one of the largest numbers of malaria cases – in 2017 there were 297554 cases and 25 deaths
A model project to strengthen malaria...
Chemical coated mosquito nets could drastically improve malaria situation: Lancet
India has one of the largest numbers of malaria cases - in 2017 there were 5,33,481 cases and 107 deathsThe good old mosquito net with...
NIH researchers reveal why iron aggravates malaria infection
Iron deficiency may in fact give some amount of protection against the mosquito borne infection
Malaria parasites invade red blood cells, consume copious amounts of...
Common anti-parasite drug could have malaria control potential
The drug when given to humans can kill mosquitoes that bite them upto 28 days after treatment
A drug commonly used to treat parasitic diseases...
