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There is resistance to the malaria drug in severely ill kids
Malaria parasites in children in Southeast Asia are not completely resistant and the need for new treatment is greater than in Africa, researchers have said. The study found that it took more than 10 years for Artemisinin to kill 50% of the parasites in the bloodstream for 11 children with severe Malaria. There is no…
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It’s doable and is affordable to delay action on antimicrobial resistance
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and Malaria (GFM) is working with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to provide funds to developing countries to tackle the spread of antimicrobial resistant (AMR) microbes. It is also working with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to provide funding for humanitarian and medical relief efforts in areas…
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Scientists face challenges in the elimination of Malaria
Researchers from Germany and Japan claim they have isolated a vaccine candidate that could help prevent malaria. The vaccine, CIS42LS, is a monoclonal antibody against Plasmodium falciparum. The researchers are hopeful that the antibody could be administered subcutaneously in adults too. Malaria is the second-largest killer of kids in the world with an estimated one…
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How genetically modified mosquitoes could be eliminated from the world
A study has suggested that incorporating genetically modified mosquitoes into a mosquito genome could break malaria transmission in sub-Saharan Africa, but no gene-drive mosquitoes have yet been released in the wild. The study analysed the distribution of 22 species of mosquito in sub-Saharan Africa between 1898 and 2016 to assess the shifts in mosquito ranges…
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The fight against malaria in Africa would be derailed by this mosquito.
A new mosquito species, Anopheles stephensi, has been found in Ethiopia which has been linked to a spike in malaria cases. “With typical malaria mosquitoes we tend to see them [ Anopheles stephensi] at a certain time of the year,” said Zohdy Girma Tadesse, a co-author of the study. It likes to breed in human…