Malaria

Study shows malaria during pregnancy spikes neurological risks for babies

April 26, 2024

Study shows malaria during pregnancy spikes neurological risks for babies

Symptoms of malaria range from fever, chills, and headache to fatigue, confusion, seizures, and difficulty in breathing.

January 22, 2024
World's first malaria vaccine programme for children in Cameroon

Cameroon is working with 20 other African countries to help them get the vaccine and those countries will hopefully immunise more than 6 million children through 2025.
November 27, 2023
Here is how soap helps fight malaria-carrying mosquitoes

Malaria is a devastating mosquito-borne disease that is prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America, causing fever, fatigue, headaches and chills.
October 07, 2021
WHO backs malaria vaccine rollout for Africa's children in major breakthrough

Since 2019, 2.3 million doses of Mosquirix have been administered to infants in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi in a large-scale pilot programme coordinated by the WHO.
October 07, 2021
WHO recommends offering world's 1st malaria vaccine to African children

The malaria vaccine known as Mosquirix was developed by GlaxoSmithKline in 1987.
May 31, 2021
Explained | Monsoon diseases and ways to prevent them

The onset of monsoon is likely to fester a plenitude of diseases in Kerala including dengue, malaria, and leptospirosis, or rat fever.
April 26, 2021
UN chief lauds countries reaching zero malaria goal

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the multiple crises it has sparked, a growing number of countries are approaching and achieving malaria elimination, the UN chief said.

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