It calls to mind mosquitoes on a continent tragically ravaged by those malaria-bearing insects.
To investigate, scientists sequenced the genomes of 800 malaria-causing parasites (Plasmodium falciparum) collected from around the world.
Other reasons include the breakdown of malaria-control programmes (as Africa has grown poorer), and greater personal mobility.
Instead they're trying to make sure traditional malaria-control measures are used extensively and effectively across the country.
The protein is of particular importance in cells that rapidly reproduce, like cancer cells or malaria-infected cells.
And Dr. O'Brochta, what's so important about finding that this genetically modified malaria-resistant mosquito is a strong mosquito?
With your help, we are working to cut by half the number of malaria-related deaths in 15 African nations.
Schistosomiasis is the second most common parasitic disease in the world after malaria - with 90% of cases in Africa.
Dr. Nawis Bilinyambe(ph), the head of Zambia's malaria-control program, says one of the most important things Zambia is doing is educating people about the disease.
Malaria-prevention drugs can affect HgA1C, as can the common sulfa antibiotics.
Dr Sharma told the meeting that fish had virtually eliminated malaria-carrying Anopheles mosquitoes from some districts, though he cautioned that the strategy did not work everywhere.
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But at the very least, malaria-prone countries should not tax bednets, as 26 African states still do, despite having promised three years ago that they would stop.
Our initial partner in the mid-1980s was the U.S. Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, which needed a malaria vaccine to protect troops who might be deployed to malaria-endemic regions.
Aid agencies Plan International Cameroon and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) fear infectious diseases - in particular cholera and malaria - could spread with the water, as is often the case.
But, more than a decade later, it turns out that quite a few countries severely affected by malaria still maintain tariffs on the importation of mosquito nets and other malaria-fighting products and drugs.
Such clear-cut results are an improvement on the more subjective read-outs from microscopy, and are welcomed not just by health workers in poor countries, but also by the American army, which has put Optimal through its clinical paces in such malaria-ridden places as Peru and Thailand.
My travel, accommodation and associated costs were met by the Malaria Consortium. (Registered 8 October 2008) 14-25 September 2008, to Nigeria, Uganda and Southern Sudan to visit Malaria Consortium Projects in my capacity as voluntary non-executive Chairman of the Malaria Consortium and Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases.
Overseas visits: 9-11 September 2008, to Paris to attend the French Coalition Against Malaria Forum in my capacity as voluntary non-executive Chairman of the Malaria Consortium and Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases.
For example, a cheap, highly effective, timely--and adaptive--approach to malaria (and other mosquito-borne diseases) is available.
Not only are poles and peaks melting, diseases -- including malaria, dengue fever and Lyme disease -- are moving northwards.
Final-stage trial data released on Tuesday showed it gave protection against clinical and severe malaria in five- to 17-month-olds in Africa, where the mosquito-borne disease kills hundreds of thousands of children a year.
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My travel, accommodation and associated costs were met by the Malaria Consortium. (Registered 8 October 2008) 7-11 December 2008, to Senegal, at the invitation of the Global Fund against Aids, TB and Malaria, as Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases, and voluntary Chairman of the Malaria Consortium (NGO), for the Global Fund Partnership Forum 2008.
He said Mezvinsky's mental problems were exacerbated by anti-malaria drug Lariam, which Mezvinsky apparently took on business trips.
And eventually, with enough effort and the help of the full range of anti-malaria weaponry, none at all will.
Many travellers have been deterred from taking vaccinations because of media scares about drugs such as the anti-malaria treatment Larium.
This initiative provides insecticide-treated bed nets, indoor spraying, and life-saving anti-malaria medications.
Another powerful in the campaign against malaria is insecticide-laden bed nets.
He unearthed studies in medical journals, revealing that the anti-malaria medication the Army gave him and other soldiers can cause the psychiatric symptoms he suffered in Iraq.
When customs authorities in Brussels confiscated the biggest ever seizure of illegal medicines in Europe last year, it was anti-malaria pills headed for Africa that they intercepted, rather than lifestyle drugs.
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