How prevalent did the disease become, and how was it eventually eradicated in the U.S.? What lessons learned can be applied to other areas battling endemic malaria, and how should history guide surveillance and prevention efforts around the world? Recent malaria outbreaks in the US The Texas ...
Lastly, due to misuse and overuse of common antimalarial medications, such as artemisinin, antimicrobial resistance has become a major problem in many regions of the world. This drives up the number of drug-resistant cases, the severity of the illness and the possibility of larger outbreaks. This...
especially in developing countries. Most deaths occur in young children. For example, in Africa, a child dies from malaria every 30 seconds. Because malaria causes so much illness and death, the disease is a great drain on many national ...
but no funding, and then handed over full responsibility for the campaign to ZAMEP the following year. Zanzibar is now shifting its vector control focus from large-scale IRS campaigns to targeted, rapid-response IRS in areas that experience malaria outbreaks, with experienced staff that can lead ...
the outbreak and then to obtain all approvals in order to deploy to the field, cases had largely already been brought under control. With malaria elimination on Thailand’s horizon, it is likely that malaria outbreaks in Southeast Asia will generally be easier to contain. However, there is a...
The launch of a new thematic series of Malaria Journal, "Towards malaria elimination", creates the forum that allows carrying scientific evidence on how to achieve malaria elimination in specific endemic settings and conditions into the circles of scientists, public health specialists, national and ...
Malaria has posed major problems during natural calamities. Outbreaks of malaria was a problem during many major constructions like that of the Suez canal and the Panama Canal. The Vatican was moved from a lower lying area to its present location, with work beginning in 1574, due to malaria....
minimus, andAn. dirusare the main malaria vectors in southern and western Asia, where urban and coastal malaria outbreaks are more common24. However, the recent expansion ofAn. stephensifrom Asia into Africa25poses a major potential health risk for densely populated urban areas in Africa, as ...
Anopheles stephensi, an Asian malaria vector, continues to expand across Africa. The vector is now firmly established in urban settings in the Horn of Africa. Its presence in areas where malaria resurged suggested a possible role in causing malaria outbreaks. Here, using a prospective case–contro...
an aid worker could quickly upload that information to the cloud. When enough people report cases, an outbreak warning can be dispatched to health workers via text message. The technology could be used even using traditional lab tests, but a 10-cent sensor makes tracking outbreaks a whole lot...