The Latest Breaking News from Malaria

New report says disease-carrying mosquitoes thrive in rising temperatures, leading to transmission in hitherto unaffected areas

More than 330,000 doses of the Mosquirix malaria vaccine have been delivered to Cameroon as part of efforts to ramp up immunisation across Africa. Cameroon is the first African country to receive the vaccine after pilot programmes in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi.

In tonight's edition: More than 330,000 doses of the RTS,S malaria vaccine, known as Mosquirix, have been delivered to Cameroon in a game-changing scaling-up of the regional immunisation drive. Also, Anglophone separatists are suspected as being behind the killings of nine villagers in French-speaking Cameroon. The killings in Bamenyam come…

The approval of two malaria vaccines – the RTS,S/AS01 vaccine in 2021 and the R21/Matrix-MTM vaccine in 2023 – will help control, and eventually help eradicate, a disease that causes more than 600,000 deaths annually. Nearly 2 million children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have been vaccinated with the RTS,S/AS01…

Each year antimicrobial resistance – the ability of microbes to survive agents designed to kill them – claims more lives than malaria and HIV/Aids combined. Africa bears the brunt of this development, which thrives on inequality and poverty. Nadine Dreyer asked Tom Nyirenda, a research scientist with over 27 years’…

Malaria is making a comeback in the United States. Mosquitos might be part of the solution.

About 40 million children born every year in malaria areas in Africa would benefit from a vaccine.

Bernice Heiderman, a University of Illinois Chicago grad, died after contracting malaria while serving in East Africa. A Peace Corps doctor never tested her for the treatable illness.

Pre-qualification seen as significant step towards self-sufficiency in healthcare in continent where more than 70% of drugs are imported

Home to the greatest biodiversity on the planet, the Amazon is also a ticking time bomb for the emergence or resurgence of diseases with pandemic potential. This is because environmental degradation and altered landscapes are important factors in this process, which are exacerbated during periods of extreme drought, such as…

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