Local and International Studies on Malaria
· Climate change could mean more malaria in Africa, study says First hard evidence that malaria creeps to higher elevations during warmer years, study of South America and Africa finds [The Guardian] First hard evidence that malaria creeps to higher elevations during warmer years, study of South America and Africa finds…… |
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· As Temperatures Climb, So Does Malaria [ScientificAmerican.com] The risk area for malaria expanded between 1990 and 2005…… |
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· Malaria Climbs Mountains as the Climate Warms New research says that climate change will cause mosquitos to move into previously bug-free high-altitude territory, bringing the debilitating and often deadly disease with them as they climbs up warming hilly terrain…… |
· Screening and treating malaria in schools ‘not useful’ [SciDevNet] A new study in Kenya on how school-based malaria interventions affect the health of children and their education has recommended that intermittent screening and treatment (IST) should not be implemented in low- to- moderate malaria transmission settings…… |
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· Malaria – safe for now, but for how long? [UNRIC] Ten years ago, malaria testing was a job for lab technicians with microscopes, and treatment –mostly the increasingly ineffective chloroquine – was left to professionals…… |
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· The Association of Parasitic Infections in Pregnancy and Maternal and Fetal Anaemia: A Cohort Study in Coastal Kenya [PLOS NTD]In this study, we determine the relative impact of helminthes and malaria on maternal anaemia…… |
· Malaria ‘spreading to new altitudes’ [BBC] Warmer temperatures are causing malaria to spread to higher altitudes, a study suggests……
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· Drug protects mice against malaria brain damage, raises levels of BDNF in humans [EurekAlert] Cerebral malaria is a serious complication of infection with the malaria parasite, affecting approximately one in a thousand children in areas where malaria is common. Many of the patients die, and among those who survive, about a third have lasting cognitive and neurological disabilities, including epilepsy and learning disorders. A study published on March 6th in PLOS Pathogens shows that a known drug can prevent brain damage in a cerebral malaria mouse model and eliminate subsequent neurological deficits…… |
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