malaria

Mosquitoes are not repelled by vitamins and other oral supplements you might take

People relying on vitamins as protection against mosquitoes can still get bitten, potentially putting them at risk of diseases.

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Antibody treatment tested as new tool against malaria

Ahead of northeast monsoon, Chennai Corporation intensifies mosquito control drive

Malavika Ramakrishnan

DGCI allows Serum Institute to export malaria vaccine to U.K.

Engineered mosquitoes produce compounds which impede the growth of malaria-causing parasites

Scientists engineer mosquitoes that can't spread malaria

Mandya to be malaria-free by 2023, say health officials

India reports 86% fall in cases since 2015, 79% reduction in deaths due to Malaria

Health workers taking out an awareness rally on the dangers of mosquito proliferation, at the Collectorate in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday.

Month-long awareness programme on malaria commences in Visakhapatnam

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Malaria: Karnataka elevated from pre-elimination to elimination phase

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Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya. File

Minister urges private sector to join fight against malaria

Bindu Shajan Perappadan

10 Kochi Corporation wards eliminate malaria

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According to a communication from the district administration, there has been no death due to Malaria in Aluva in the last five years.

Aluva certified as first Malaria-free town in Ernakulam district

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West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar has been diagnosed with malaria and admitted to old private ward at the main AIIMS.

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar admitted to AIIMS

The RTS,S vaccine (Mosquirix) is made by GlaxoSmithKline after successful pilot programmes in Kenya, Ghana and Malawi.

Explained | Will India benefit from the WHO-recommended malaria vaccine?

Killing the chills: On the malaria vaccine

A file picture of Varun Gandhi with his mother Maneka Gandhi.

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RTS,S was first authorised in 2015 by the European Medicines Agency for use in Africa in infants and children.

World Health Organization recommends first anti-malarial vaccine

Malaria screening camps in Tripura remote areas

Syed Sajjad Ali

A blastocyst of the monkey–human chimaeras.Credit: Weizhi Ji, Kunming University of Science and Technology

Best from science journals: Monkey–human embryos

A year on, mind the gaps in the pandemic response

J.V.R. Prasada Rao,Amartya Chowdhury

Rotary Club former president Mantri Venkata Swamy with one of his many awards that he won for his awareness programmes on polio, TB, AIDS and malaria, in Srikakulam.

In the front line of war against polio, TB, AIDS

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A North Delhi MCD worker fumigating Flag Staff Road area as part of preventive measures against mosquito-borne diseases like Dengue, Malaria and Chikungunya. File Photo

India records largest reductions in malaria cases in South-East Asia, says WHO

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Malaria cases decline to 1,092 this year in Mangaluru

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