BANGKOK — The World Health Organization is warning that about $450 million is needed over the next three years to stop a strain of drug-resistant malaria from spreading beyond Southeast Asia to the rest of the world. Researchers say the artemisinin-resistant strain has spread to Burma and Vietnam since it was first detected along the Cambodian-Thai border in 2008. In addition to sounding the … [Read more...]
Upsurge of Malaria in Cameroon Town
AOUNDE — A malaria upsurge in the town of Maroua, in the far north of Cameroon, has led to the death of hundreds of people. More than 10,000 people have been treated for the disease in the last month, straining the capacity of area hospitals and clinics. Cameroon state radio said the number of people suffering from malaria in the north has made an unprecedented surge in the past three … [Read more...]
Math Prof’s Mosquito Control Models Inform Malaria Research
Genetics may provide humankind its most comprehensive answers in controlling the age-old scourges of malaria, dengue fever and West Nile virus by eliminating the ability of vector mosquitoes to host the diseases. But the new genetic solutions that involve introducing engineered malaria-resistant mosquitoes or mosquitoes replete with engineered resistant gut bacteria raise questions of their … [Read more...]
Ranbaxy Drug Synriam Receives Indian Government Approval to Treat Plasmodium Vivax
Single treatment for both Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum malaria Permission received to conduct Phase III clinical trials for pediatric formulation Gurgaon, India,: Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited (Ranbaxy) today announced that the company has received approval from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), Government of India to manufacture and market Synriam … [Read more...]
GlaxoSmithKline Seeks to Market RTS,S Malaria Vaccine
British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline is seeking approval to market the world's first malaria vaccine, after trials showed that it significantly cut cases of the disease in children. Results from latest clinical trial of the RTS,S vaccine were unveiled at a conference in Durban, South Africa on Tuesday. It showed that after 18 months of follow-up, the vaccine halved the number of malaria cases … [Read more...]
RTS,S Malaria Vaccine Results Promising
Results from a large-scale Phase III trial, presented today in Durban, show that the most clinically advanced malaria vaccine candidate, RTS,S, continued to protect young children and infants from clinical malaria up to 18 months after vaccination. Over 18 months of follow-up, RTS,S was shown to reduce cases of clinical malaria by 46% in young children (aged 5-17 months at first vaccination) and … [Read more...]
Malaria Threatens Penguins
As carefree as penguins might look, torpedoing through the water or rocketing into the air like a Poseidon missile, zoo penguins are stalked by an unrelenting killer: malaria. “It’s probably the top cause of mortality for penguins exposed outdoors,” said Dr. Allison N. Wack, a veterinarian at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore. The avian version is not a threat to humans because mosquitoes carrying … [Read more...]
Malaria No More Debuts “Power of One” (Po1) Campaign to Fight Malaria
Malaria No More announced today the debut of its most aggressive campaign to date: Power of One (Po1), where a one dollar donation provides a life-saving test and treatment for a child in Africa. The Power of One campaign uses the latest social, mobile, and e-commerce technologies to rally the global public to close malaria testing and treatment gaps in Africa, starting with Zambia. Malaria No … [Read more...]
Exchange Transfusion for Treatment of Severe Malaria No Longer Recommended
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) no longer recommends the use of exchange transfusion (ET) as an adjunct to antimalarial drugs for the treatment of severe malaria. ET is a procedure in which a portion of blood from the infected patient is removed and replaced with uninfected blood. Previously, the rationale for the use of ET in severe malaria was that ET removed infected cells … [Read more...]
How Malaria Parasites Stick to Sides of Blood Vessels
Researchers have identified how malaria parasites growing inside red blood cells stick to the sides of blood vessels in severe cases of malaria. The discovery may advance the development of vaccines or drugs to combat severe malaria by stopping the parasites attaching to blood vessels. The results are now published in the scientific journal Nature. Though researchers have known for over a … [Read more...]