El Salvador becomes first central American country to be declared malaria-free

The country has not recorded any indigenous case of malaria since 2017

Weak spot

Secret of malaria parasite found

Troublemaking protein found

Breakthrough in fighting severe malaria among children

Malaria manipulation

Parasite controls biting behaviour of mosquitoes

Rising trend

New drugs on the block

The development of new drugs could contain the spread of malaria

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Devil is in the details

A WTO meeting of ministers is hailed as a success

Fine print hassles

Chemical manufacturers shaken by India's signing POPs convention

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Award for ecosecurity

For his outstanding work in fighting malaria, V P Sharma gets the Green Scientist Award 2001

Mutations that make malaria drugs ineffective discovered

Gene kelch13 associated with malaria resistance

Big mini revolution

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Needed: People's participation

Communities and state governments have to play a more important role

Hassan: Holding on

MRC's operations are still going on in this Karnataka district, but their fate is uncertain

Kheda: Forgotten glory

This is where it all started. And now, there is no sign of past successes

Chennai: beginning of a new policy

New bye-laws might help in dealing with malaria

Pondichery: The gnats live on

Even the memory of initial success of bioenvironmental approach has been wiped off

Goa: Back to square one

For mysterious reasons, the state government is highly sceptical of the MRC's work

Pops out

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Scientists make DNA barcode of malaria parasite

It can help prevent spread of drug-resistant malaria from one region to another

Malaria, dengue detection made easy

Doctors evolve mathematical formula to pinpoint most likely cause of fever

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