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Thrombocytopenia in Malaria
; Malaria continues to be a cause of high mortality and morbidity. Imported cases of malaria are increasing in New York City. Yet, New York physicians...patients for fever, frequently missed the diagnosis of malaria. We evaluated the role of platelet count for predicting...
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Developing artemisinin based drug combinations for the treatment of drug resistant falciparum malaria: A review
; Malaria is a serious global health challenge. Estimates of the global burden vary but a figure of 400...estimated at 200-500 million cases per year with 0.7 to 2.7 million deaths. Although the burden of malaria and the focus of its control is Africa, malaria is still an important public health problem in ...
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Malaria- hope on the horizon
; Malaria is a major international public health problem, and the...Despite its already enormous toll of suffering, deaths due to malaria are increasing as a consequence of drug resistance.[1] The global resurgence of malaria can be attributed to a variety of factors- insecticide...
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Resurgence of Malaria.
; Malaria, a disease once considered eradicated here, is coming back...Korea National Institute of Health, the first ever against malaria in the country, is a clear indication of the rapid resurgence...places where more than 10 people per 100,000 were hit by malaria last year. The move to contain the disease ...
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Disease deadbeats.(article by Vasant Narasimhan and Amir Attaran in Malaria Journal, Vol. 2, No. 8, April 2003)(Global Newsstand)
; * Malaria Journal, Vol. 2, No. 8, April 2003, Online Five years...World Health Organization (WHO), founded the Roll Back Malaria initiative (RBM), a global effort to combat resurgent malaria in the many countries afflicted by the disease. Since...
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Malaria biting back
; Malaria biting back Increased travel, lack of mosquito control...famed Victoria Falls had little to fear from mosquitoes. Malaria, the main health risk that the pesky biters pose, could...use of the drug over time has led the germ that causes malaria to evolve and develop mutations that make it resistant...
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Malaria in the Americas: A model of reemergence
; Malaria in the Americas is a reemerging health issue. In 1969, the World Health Organization shifted policy from malaria eradication to malaria control. With this shift, vector control (house spraying with dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane [DDT]) was deemphasized...
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Malaria: Antimalarial resistance and policy ramificationsand challenges
; Malaria is one of most ancient diseases of humans and has influenced human evolution and history. Though the malaria parasite cycle was discovered in 1897 and the concept of eradication was adopted by the WHO in 1955, malaria continues to remain a major health problem. Most estimates...
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'Malaria, not Aids', says Obasanjo
; Malaria kills more Africans each year than Aids, yet malaria is increasingly being ignored as the spotlight and resources...Obasanjo. In his opening speech to the two-day WHO "Roll Back Malaria" summit held in Abuja in late April, Obasanjo controversially...
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MALARIA RESURGENCE
; MALARIA RESURGENCE Growing stronger against drugs, deadly parasite...piled deep despite the warm climate, she realized she had malaria. She had struggled with the disease many times before...t have any strength left," she says. Two commonly used malaria drugs -- drugs that usually worked -- failed to bring ...
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