Microbe Could Help Battle Malaria Researchers have discovered a bacterium in the gut of the Anopheles mosquito which may someday be used to destroy and, therefore, prevent the spread of the disease-causing parasite. The World Health Organization esti...
Former U.S. President George W. Bush declared April 25 as World Malaria Awareness Day in 2007. He asked the world to join the fight to wipe out malaria on the African continent. He said: We focus our attention on all who suffer from this terrible dis...
Israeli(以色列) researchers say they have developed a powerful bait that effectively attracts and kills malaria-infected mosquitoes but is completely harmless to humans and other animals. The toxic sugar bait developed by scientists at Hebrew Univ...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Malaria kills about one million people a year and sickens another two hundred fifty million. Most of the deaths are in young children in Africa. Malaria causes twenty percent of childhood deaths in Afric...
Under UV light, this mosquito larva reveals a red fluorescent marker in its nervous system, causing eyes and nerves to glow. The marker's presence tells the researchers in Riehle's team that this individual carries the genetic construct rendering it...
You know saving the rainforest is good for biodiversity. But it may also be a boon to human health. That's because less clear-cutting may mean less malaria, according to a paper out this week in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. Researchers l...
Sickle cell disease is a blood disorder due to a single genetic mutation. It remains in populations because the mutation has a flip sideit helps to protect against malaria. Now another mutation has been shown to afford similar protection. Deficiency...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? In the insect world, bright reds, oranges and yellows can be a warning: Eat me at your own risk, pal. Because colorful bugs can be toxic, they often get their...
Dr. Megan Coffee examines a patient named Stanley who has tuberculosis at Port-au-Prince Hospital Port-au-Prince General Hospital is the largest hospital in Haiti. Some of its buildings were damaged during the earthquake, but with the help of interna...
The World Health Organization reports progress in malaria control programs is being made as effective measures against this fatal disease are becoming more widely available. WHO's 2008 Global Malaria Report presents, what it calls, its most comprehe...
