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New report doubles estimated death toll from malaria (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)

[KPLU] A new global estimate of malaria deaths by researchers in Seattle has revealed the death toll is much greater than most experts had thought -- and is not, as had been universally assumed, mostly a killer of children. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

[Guardian Network] Dateline - Malaria kills twice as many people every year as formerly believed, taking 1.2 million lives and causing the deaths not only of babies but also older children and adults, according to research that overturns decades of assumptions about one of the world's most lethal diseases. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

[IRIN] London - A new attempt to quantify malaria deaths over the past 30 years suggests the death toll, especially among adults, has been greatly underestimated. The figures also show the fragility of the gains made in fighting the disease. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

LONDON (Reuters) - Malaria kills more than 1.2 million people worldwide a year, nearly twice as many as previously thought, according to new research published on Friday that questions years of assumptions about the mosquito-borne disease. (Source: Reuters: Health)

[Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation] Washington, DC - Despite assumptions that mainly young children die from the disease, 42% of 1.2 million deaths occur in older children and adults. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

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[SAPA] Six people have been diagnosed with malaria in Tshwane in Gauteng without visiting malaria areas, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Malaria may be killing around twice as many as experts thought, and it could also be hitting older children and adults a new study suggests. (Source: USATODAY.com Health)

[Public Agenda] 1. Build malaria information sharing into the agenda of staff meetings and host question and answer sessions with trained health workers to correct misconceptions about malaria. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

A new analysis of malaria mortality published in The Lancet this week suggests deaths to the parasitic disease worldwide have been grossly underestimated, especially in adults. If confirmed, the study has huge implications for how large amounts of charity money are spent in controlling the disease. However, the study also finds that thanks to improved prevention and treatment, such as anti-malaria drugs and insecticide-treated bed nets, deaths to malaria are falling rapidly... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

Malaria does not just kill babies and children under five – it kills adults too, in nearly as large proportionsDecades of assumptions about the lethality of malaria have been overturned by the publication of a paper in the Lancet from an academic institute in Seattle which says the disease kills twice as many as everybody thought. Even more extraordinary – it would seem that conventional wisdom about the disease has been wrong all this time.It does not just kill babies and children under five — it kills adults too, in nearly as large proportions.The Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation has astounded the global health community by claiming it has been fighting malaria apparently with one hand behind its back. The death toll has come down since 2004, thanks to huge efforts to get...

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Malaria kills 1.2 million people every year, a finding that has implications for global efforts to eliminate the diseaseMalaria kills twice as many people every year as formerly believed, taking 1.2 million lives and causing the deaths not only of babies but also older children and adults, according to research that overturns decades of assumptions about one of the world's most lethal diseases.The findings from the research, published on Friday, which has reanalysed 30 years of data on the disease using new techniques, will force a rethink of the huge global effort that has been under way to eliminate malaria. That ambition now looks highly unlikely by the UN target date of 2015.It also raises urgent questions about the future of the troubled Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria, whic...

The number of deaths worldwide from malaria has been underestimated, according to data published in the medical journal the Lancet. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)

[PlusNews] Nainnesburg - The appointment of a new general manager, Gabriel Jaramillo, at the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis could be a "turning point" for the troubled organization, which has suffered from a funding crisis and allegations of corruption. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)

[Ghanaian Chronicle] The Hyundai Motor Company in collaboration with Auto Plaza embarked on malaria awareness educational programme for school pupils in Accra. The pupils were educated on the symptoms and dangers of malaria, which is a major killer among infants in the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)

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(Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation) Malaria is killing more people worldwide than previously thought -- 1.2 million -- but the number of deaths has fallen rapidly as efforts to combat the disease have ramped up, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. IHME researchers say that deaths from malaria have been missed by previous studies because of the assumption that the disease mainly kills children under age five. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)

[Liberia] President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf arrived home Tuesday evening from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she attended the 18th Ordinary Session of Heads of State and Government of the African Union, and also assumed Chairmanship of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA). (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)

[Analyst] President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has been elected president of the Africa Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA).  The Liberian President was elected by members of ALMA to succeed the founding chair, Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)

Bhutan has successfully brought down malaria cases, but fears reversals from global warming. (Source: SciDev.Net)