falciparum malaria is a life-threatening infectious disease that is responsible for over 90% of malaria cases and almost all the malaria deaths worldwide [1••]. It is more prevalent in SSA and New Guinea. P. vivax is more prevalent is South America and Asia [4]. P. malariae is ...
work because of malaria than any other health or safety threat. In response, ExxonMobil developed a world-class workplace malaria control program. As a result, ExxonMobil has averted more than 2,000 cases of malaria since 2000, and no employee or contractor has died from malaria since 2007....
However, there is substantial national and subnational heterogeneity in CCM programmes. Successful programmes have increased appropriate treatment-seeking for fever and malaria case management for children under 5 years of age, in some cases, exceeding appropriate malaria treatment rates at public health ...
But despite this progress, nearly half the global population remains vulnerable to malaria—living in constant fear that they will lose their lives because of a mosquito bite. And last year, after two decades of no domestically-acquired cases of malaria, ten cases were reported in the United St...
populations. The optimum cut-off parasite densities through the determination of the sensitivity and specificity showed that in children less than five years of age, 500 parasites per μl of blood could be used to define the malaria attributable fever cases for this age group. In children between...
Nigeria suffers the world’s largest malaria burden, with approximately 51 million cases and 207,000 deaths annually. As part of the country’s aim to reduce by 50% malaria-related morbidity and mortality by 2013, it embarked on mass distribution of free long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs...
A retrospective and descriptive study of cases of malaria confirmed and treated by the Paediatric Infectious Diseases Unit (age lower than 15 years) at the La Fe Hospital, Valencia, over the period 1993–2015. Results A total of 54 cases of paediatric malaria were diagnosed in the period 1993...
in the central African country. In 2022 alone, according to the World Health Organization, Cameroon recorded more than 6.4 million cases of the disease and over malaria-related 12,500 deaths. China is sharing its experience in malaria prevention and control with Cameroon and contributing to the ...
Although the incidence of malaria and mortality due to malaria declined significantly by 62% and 41%, respectively, between 2000 and 2015, WHO reported that malaria remained an endemic disease in 76 countries at the beginning of 2016 [124], with approximately 216 million malaria cases in that ...
Write down the drug's brand and generic names, and keep that with you while you travel. Leave the medicine in its original package. Avoid travel in some cases.Try to avoid travel to areas with malaria if you're pregnant. Malaria can cause pregnancy problems such as miscarriage and early ...