Malaria menace

Health experts warn of an impending malaria epidemic in Vadodara. But government officials are silent over the issue

Gender bender

The unique sex life of the malarial parasite

Healing touch

Cures trapped in troubles

More virulent form of diseases could be the future babies of ineffective medicines

A tryst winth death

The land of the Brahmaputra recurrently reels under terrible onslaughts of a scourge

Borne again

Why is malaria, an easily preventable ailment, showing signs of resurging in all its fury, and what are we doing to contain its marauding steps?

Feverish inactivity

A gang of ten

A Rajasthan village entrusts anti-malaria campaign to children; they do remarkable work

India comes up with strategic plan to eradicate malaria

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has released a plan for strategic action on malaria till 2022, with an aim to eradicate the disease by 2030

Global malaria mortality rates dropped 47 per cent between 2000 and 2013

Sixty-four countries are on track to meet Millennium Development Goal of reversing the incidence of malaria, according to a WHO report

Malaria can be detected through body odour now

New research promises development of non-invasive diagnostic procedures for effective malaria screening

Climate change and malaria

Though there is no evidence showing inter-annual variation in malaria transmission intensities and climatic determinants in the Northeast because …

New strategies needed for elimination of malaria: Experts

Conventionally less lethal malarial parasites are also taking up deadlier forms, they said 

Paraguay now malaria-free

The country has worked on eliminating the disease for more than five decades and finally found success

Bite that mosquitoes love

It depends on the diversity of skin bacteria

Malaria halt

Pumping in diseases

Colombian gift

MALI

Sneaky genes

PREYING ON THE POOR

The empire strikes back

Despite the progress in medical science, many old and new diseases seem to dodge us. Microbes which we bade farewell to, are raising their ugly …

Herb to the rescue

Malignant bite

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