Fungus Knocks Out Malaria In Mosquitoes

Scientists have come up with a new approach to controlling malaria. Instead of killing the mosquito that transmits the malaria parasite, the researchers have found a way to let the mosquito live, while killing the parasite inside it. Scientists hope to use a fungus to keep malaria-carrying mosquitoes like the Anopheles gambiae species from growing resistant to insecticides. Enlarge Courtesy of James...

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Mosquito-Attacking Fungus Engineered to Block Malaria

Although public health efforts have eradicated some diseases and helped limit the impact of many others, malaria continues to present a massive public health issue. A large fraction of the world’s population lives in areas where the parasite poses a risk, and it kills a million people annually, most of them in the developing world. The malarial parasite, Plasmodium, has proven tough to tackle for...

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U.S. Ambassador Concerned Malaria in Papua

U.S. Ambassador  to Indonesia Scot Marciel visited the  Academy of  Midwifery  at the Polytechnic  of Health  Jayapura  and meet the students studying there through a program supported by  the U.S.  Agency for  International Development (USAID) and UNICEF. The students were educated in order to improve maternal and child health. "Ambassador Marciel...

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Tripped India Malaria Data

India is still diharu-blue by malaria. According to the records media journal The Lancet malaria killed more than 200,000 people in India every year. This amount is 13 times more than the estimate of World Health Organization, WHO. However, new research shows that the number of people who had died from malaria in India has been estimated much lower than the real state. The research team claimed the...

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Carrier Mosquitoes Malaria Evolve

Two strains of mosquitoes spreading malaria in Africa are genetically evolved to become the new species is different from previous. It is known from international research that led scientists from Imperial College London (ICL) of the strain M and S strains of Anopheles gambiae that exist in Sub-Saharan Africa. Physically, the strain M and S were identical. However, genetically, they have different...

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Beware of malaria in the Mentawai Kemenkes

What to look out for is diarrhea, a common disease occurs due to poor environmental sanitation, and malaria because of the area include malaria-prone areas, "said Health Minister Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih when met after inaugurating echelon I officials within Kemenkes in Jakarta. Various measures, according to Minister of Health, has done Kemenkes an effort to reduce the risk of outbreak, which...

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Malaria Still Threatens Refugees Wasior

Thousands of refugees flood disaster in Wasior, Wondama Bay, West Papua, October 4 and, increasingly  vulnerable  to malaria. Cause, weakening the body's resistance of refugees  plus poor environmental hygiene in the vicinity of the location of shelters. In refugee camps in the area of ​​the Forestry Training Centre in the region Fasharkan, Manokwari.tercatat there were at least 82...

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Beware of Malaria in Rainy Season

Malaria is an infectious disease that can cause death, if patients are not given treatment immediately. During this time, he said, the malaria endemic areas around the southern coast of Lebak, because in these areas if the rainy season becomes a breeding ground for anopheles mosquitoes that live in the lagoon-lagoon coast. Some districts that have become endemic malaria coast, namely Sub Cihara,...

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