Fortunately, there are several ways to reduce your risk of exposure and avoid catching malaria. In this article, we’ll look at the signs and symptoms of malaria, how it’s spread, and the steps you can take to prevent catching it. How do you catch malaria? Malaria is spreadby the bit...
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By 2022, the Government of Indonesia had successfully eliminated malaria in 389 out of 514 districts but continues to face a challenge in Eastern Indonesia where 95% of the total 2021 malaria cases were reported from Papua, West Papua and Nusa Tenggara Timur provinces. There is an increased rec...
He said, "'This is a very important finding. The mosquito that has spread in the Horn of Africa from Asia drove a major urban malaria outbreak in Ethiopia. An. stephensi is posing important public health concerns due to the increase in geographical presence, the capacity to persist throughout...
WHO does recommend, however, that both the mother and the baby take antiretroviral therapy to help reduce the risk of transmission [source: WHO]. A fragile virus that can't survive outside the human body, HIV does not transmit through the air. It also can't be contracted like a cold ...
There are vegans who think it's ok to eat oysters and mussels. I want to go a step farther: vegans should be ok with dairy. Specifically, under pretty conservative assumptions you do much more good donating just $5/year to the Against Malaria Foundation
England Journal of Medicine focuses on genetically modified organisms, orGMOs, herbicides and public health. Personally, I often think about how my grandmother's exposure to a pesticide used to fight malaria during the 1940s might have affected my family, possib...
By analyzing samples from patients who have been treated for malaria in Sweden, researchers at Karolinska Institutet can now describe how the immune system acts to protect the body after a malaria infection. The results, published in the journal Cell Rep
(Pérez-Sánchez et al.2018). Although the minimalization of fish diseases is one of the most important tasks, there are ways to reduce the use of antibiotics in aquaculture. A reduction in the amount of fish inside one tank causes less stress for fish and improves their resistance. ...
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