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Scientists infect mosquitos with bacteria to curb malaria transmission
Raw Story
US scientists have found a way to infect mosquitoes with bacteria in order to break the chain of malaria transmission, according to research published Thursday in a leading scientific journal. A similar approach has helped cut back on dengue in some ...

Bacterial infection in mosquitoes renders them immune to malaria parasites
Eureka! Science News
Scientists funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have established an inheritable bacterial infection in malaria-transmitting Anopheles mosquitoes that renders them immune ...

Today marks beginning of the end of malaria
The Observer (blog)
The worldwide fight against malaria is one of the health sector's most impressive success stories. According to the World Health Organization 2011 World Malaria report, the estimated number of global malaria deaths fell from about 985,000 in 2000 to ...

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Using Bacteria to Stop Malaria
Science Daily (press release)
May 9, 2013 — Mosquitoes are deadly efficient disease transmitters. Research conducted at Michigan State University, however, demonstrates that they also can be part of the solution for diseases such as malaria.

Test to study risk of cerebral malaria among children
Hindustan Times
Michigan State University researchers have identified a test that can determine which children with malaria are likely to develop cerebral malaria, a much more life-threatening form of the disease. "Children who progress to cerebral malaria have a 20% ...

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To Stop Malaria, Infect the Mosquitoes
Science AAAS
But now humanity may have found a way to turn the tables. In a new study, researchers report that giving mosquitoes an infection of their own—with a strange bacterium that tinkers with the insects' sex lives—may prevent mosquitoes from transmitting ...

Toxic Waste on Par with Malaria as a Global Killer
Inter Press Service
The impacts on health in some countries are on par with malaria, said Kevin Chatham-Stephens, a pediatric environmental health fellow at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. "We have found lots of nasty sites out there but we don't have the ...

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Semi-synthetic artemisinin promises to boost global malaria improvements
Gant Daily
According to Martin de Smet, who heads up Médecins Sans Frontières' working group on malaria, the uncertainty of natural artemisinin's availability has led to bulk buying and speculation in the market, leading to the price of the raw ...

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Mosquitoes are deadly efficient disease transmitters. New research however, demonstrates that they also can be part of the solution for preventing diseases such as malaria.

Scientists have established an inheritable bacterial infection in malaria-transmitting Anopheles mosquitoes that renders them immune to malaria parasites. Specifically, the scientists infected the mosquitoes with Wolbachia, a bacterium common among insects that previously has been shown to prevent malaria-inducing Plasmodium parasites from developing in Anopheles mosquitoes.

Malaria mosquito dosed with disease-fighting bacteria
Science News
In a long-sought step toward building a safer mosquito, researchers have infected the insects with bacteria that sabotage their malaria-causing parasites. Researchers would like to use Wolbachia bacteria to keep malaria parasites from thriving inside a ...

NPR (blog)
Using Bacteria To Swat Malaria Inside Mosquitoes
NPR (blog)
It's a bit like probiotics for mosquitoes. When scientists infect mosquitoes with a specific bacterium, the insects become resistant to the malaria parasite. Sounds like an easy way to stamp out malaria, right? Just introduce the infected mosquitoes ...
Using Bacteria to Stop MalariaScience Daily (press release)
Sickly mosquitoes stymie malaria's spreadNature.com
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Medical Daily
Stopped In Mid Flight: Bacterial Infection Kills Malaria Parasites In Mosquitoes
Medical Daily
Over half a billion people died last year from malaria; nine out of 10 deaths were in Africa and the majority were children. The disease is so widespread in the tropics that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently created a web app to ...

Nature.com
Sickly mosquitoes stymie malaria's spread
Nature.com
Scientists have engineered mosquitoes to carry a bacterium that confers resistance to the malaria parasite — a long-sought advance that could eventually curb malaria cases in humans. A team led by Zhiyong Xi, a medical entomologist at Michigan State ...
Malaria Hope In Bacteria That Stop Mosquitoes Infecting HumansMedical News Today
Malaria mosquito dosed with disease-fighting bacteriaScience News
Bacteria in mosquitoes could help stop spread of malariaThe Hub at Johns Hopkins
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New Tools to Capture Quality Data for Malaria Diagnosis - SpyGhana.com
spyghana.com
“We want to use the new technology to diagnose malaria well. Ghana is using all types of means to tackle malaria and I believe that we are getting the results,” Dr Sory, who is also a director at Fio Health Ghana Limited, a mobile digital diagnosis and ...

Nanowire device may help tackle malaria drug resistance
Reuters AlertNet
Malaria treatment could be revolutionised by a smartphone-sized nanotech diagnostic device that can tell from a drop of blood whether or not a particular treatment is likely to be effective, say its developers. One of the major challenges that malaria ...

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Semi-synthetic artemisinin promises to boost global malaria gains
IRINnews.org
NAIROBI, 9 May 2013 (IRIN) - The UN World Health Organization has accepted the first semi-synthetic version of artemisinin, the key ingredient for malaria treatment globally, for use in the manufacture of drugs, boosting hopes that more people will ...

Nanowire device may help tackle malaria drug resistance
TrustLaw
Malaria treatment could be revolutionised by a smartphone-sized nanotech diagnostic device that can tell from a drop of blood whether or not a particular treatment is likely to be effective, say its developers. One of the major challenges that malaria ...

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Forest conservation could reduce malaria transmission
Reuters AlertNet
No malaria cases have been reported on the mountain range in the past 30 years, but the primary malaria mosquito in the Atlantic Forest, Anopheles cruzii, lives nearby and could introduce the Plasmodium vivax parasite — associated with an estimated ...

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Forest conservation could reduce malaria transmission
Reuters AlertNet
No malaria cases have been reported on the mountain range in the past 30 years, but the primary malaria mosquito in the Atlantic Forest, Anopheles cruzii, lives nearby and could introduce the Plasmodium vivax parasite — associated with an estimated ...