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    Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates. Human malaria causes symptoms that typically include fever, fatigue, vomiting...
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  • Malaria! was a German experimental electronic band from West Berlin, formed in 1981 by Gudrun Gut and Bettina Köster following the dissolution of Mania...
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  • Malaria vaccines are vaccines that prevent malaria, a mosquito-borne infectious disease which annually affects an estimated 247 million people worldwide...
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    The history of malaria extends from its prehistoric origin as a zoonotic disease in the primates of Africa through to the 21st century. A widespread and...
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    World Malaria Day (WMD) is an international observance commemorated every year on 25 April and recognizes global efforts to control malaria. Globally...
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  • Avian malaria is a parasitic disease of birds, caused by parasite species belonging to the genera Plasmodium and Hemoproteus (phylum Apicomplexa, class...
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  • refer to: Malaria (1919 film), a German silent film Malaria (1943 film), a French drama film Malaria (2016 film), an Iranian drama film Malaria!, an experimental...
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    DDT (redirect from DDT use against malaria)
    half of World War II to limit the spread of the insect-borne diseases malaria and typhus among civilians and troops. Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize...
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  • agent, often naturally derived, that can be used to treat or to prevent malaria, in the latter case, most often aiming at two susceptible target groups...
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    parasite of humans, and the deadliest species of Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans. The parasite is transmitted through the bite of a female Anopheles...
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    blood cells. The ensuing destruction of host red blood cells can result in malaria. During this infection, some parasites are picked up by a blood-feeding...
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    recurring malaria. Although it is less virulent than Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest of the five human malaria parasites, P. vivax malaria infections...
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  • The mainstay of malaria diagnosis has been the microscopic examination of blood, utilizing blood films. Although blood is the sample most frequently used...
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    Quinine is a medication used to treat malaria and babesiosis. This includes the treatment of malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum that is resistant to...
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  • Malaria has had a significant impact on the history of the Caribbean, due to its effects on the colonization of the islands and the corresponding impact...
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    semisynthetic derivatives are a group of drugs used in the treatment of malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum. It was discovered in 1972 by Tu Youyou, who...
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    Malaria No More is a nonprofit organization that seeks to eradicate malaria. The organization has offices in the United States, as well as affiliates...
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  • Malaria prophylaxis is the preventive treatment of malaria. Several malaria vaccines are under development. For pregnant women who are living in malaria...
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    to be an extremely effective method of malaria prevention, averting approximately 663 million cases of malaria over the period 2000–2015. Mosquito netting...
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  • The malaria therapy (or malaria inoculation, and sometimes malariotherapy) is an archaic medical procedure of treating diseases using artificial injection...
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  • progress, malaria in Madagascar remains a major health problem, and severe malaria is among the top five causes of reported overall mortality. Malaria epidemiology...
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    The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (or simply the Global Fund) is an international financing and partnership organization that aims...
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    which quinine is dissolved. Originally used as a prophylactic against malaria, nowadays tonic water usually has a significantly lower quinine content...
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    increase in schistosomiasis cases. Forest-associated diseases include malaria, Chagas disease (also known as American trypanosomiasis), African trypanosomiasis...
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  • Target Malaria is a not-for-profit international research consortium that aims to co-develop and share novel genetic technologies to help control malaria in...
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  • Malaria was a severe epidemic in parts of Mandatory Palestine in the early 20th century. The epidemic killed many people from the biblical period until...
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    Plasmodium malariae is a parasitic protozoan that causes malaria in humans. It is one of several species of Plasmodium parasites that infect other organisms...
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    Mosquito-malaria theory (or sometimes mosquito theory) was a scientific theory developed in the latter half of the 19th century that solved the question...
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    The National Institute of Malaria Research (NIMR), New Delhi, is one of the research institution of Indian Council of Medical Research under Department...
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    for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria, becoming the first British Nobel laureate, and the first born outside...
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