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Tanzania will receive $99 million in aid from the U.S. to enhance its efforts to address malaria and HIV/AIDS and provide loans to farmers, Tanzania's Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Bernard Membe said Tuesday, Reuters reports. The U.S. pledged the funding during Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete's
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University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have discovered a key biochemical link in the process by which the Ebola Zaire virus infects cells - a critical step to finding a way to treat the deadly disease produced by the virus. Ebola produces severe and often fatal hemorrhagic fever in its victims and inflicts mortality rates close to 90 percent in some outbreaks.
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During her three-day visit to Ghana, UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman announced an additional $1.7 million in support to combat malaria in the country. The money will help provide insecticide-treated bed-nets, a life saving intervention that is simple and cost effective. Thousands of children under the age of five die from malaria each year in Ghana. "In Africa, malaria is the number one killer of children under age five," Veneman said.
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One of the concerns of citizens with the development and use of genetically engineered mosquitoes in the fight against dengue fever and malaria is the fact that most of the current approaches result in released engineered strains remaining in the environment. We provide a novel approach that enables self-limiting spread of an engineered construct and describe its population genetic and mechanical properties.
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It has recently been proposed that mosquito vectors of human diseases, particularly malaria, may be controlled by spraying with fungal biopesticides that increase the rate of adult mortality. Though fungal pathogens do not cause instantaneous mortality they can kill mosquitoes before they are old enough to transmit disease. A model is developed..
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In work that could lead to new ways of detecting and treating malaria, MIT researchers have used two advanced microscopy techniques to show in unprecedented detail how the malaria parasite attacks red blood cells. The researchers' images show red blood cell membranes becoming less flexible, which causes the cells to clump as they try to navigate tiny blood vessels. They also show the destruction of hemoglobin, the critical molecule that red blood cells use to carry oxygen.
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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Malaria Research Institute have identified a previously unknown virus that is infectious to Anopheles gambiae the mosquito primarily responsible for transmitting malaria. According to the researchers, the discovered virus could one day be used to pass on new genetic information to An. gambiae mosquitoes as part of a strategy to control malaria, which kills over one million people worldwide each year.
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Spray yourself with a DEET-based insect repellent and the mosquitoes will leave you alone. But why? They flee because of their intense dislike for the smell of the chemical repellent and not because DEET jams their sense of smell, report researchers at the University of California, Davis. Their groundbreaking findings was published Monday, Aug. 18, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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If you knew what possessed the young Jim Sacchettini to become a biochemist, you might look upon the "bar scene" more approvingly. But that story's for later. Instead, ponder what Sacchettini calls "the diseases of the poor" - infectious diseases that not long ago were considered wiped from the face of the Earth - tuberculosis and malaria, for instance. Sacchettini saw these maladies firsthand in the Bronx. He had gone there in 1990 from St. Louis, Mo.
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The long-term prognosis of patients infected with West Nile virus is good, according to a new study appearing in the August 19, 2008, issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, the American College of Physicians' flagship journal. This is the largest study of the long-term outcomes of West Nile virus infection. West Nile virus is a potentially serious central nervous system infection spread by mosquitoes.
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Platelets those tiny, unassuming cells that cause blood to clot and scabs to form when you cut yourself play an important early role in promoting cerebral malaria, an often lethal complication that occurs mostly in children. Affecting as many as half a billion people in tropical and subtropical regions, malaria is one of the oldest recorded diseases and the parasite responsible for it, Plasmodium, among the most studied pathogens of all time.
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Platelets - those tiny, unassuming cells that cause blood to clot and scabs to form when you cut yourself - play an important early role in promoting cerebral malaria, an often lethal complication that occurs mostly in children. Affecting as many as half a billion people in tropical and subtropical regions, malaria is one of the oldest recorded diseases and the parasite responsible for it, Plasmodium, among the most studied pathogens of all time.
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Newborns in Brazil are more susceptible to toxoplasmosis than those in Europe, according to a recent study. Researchers based in Austria, Brazil, Denmark, France, Italy, Poland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom studied the disease's ocular effects in children from birth to four years of age. Details are published August 13th in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
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tropical diseases AID Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) announced a $3.5-million grant to the Global Health Group at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), to expand its core support for an unprecedented malaria elimination effort in southern Africa. "To win the fight against malaria we must attack the disease on many fronts," said Rex W. Tillerson, chairman and chief executive officer.
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The United Nations Foundation announced that it will provide 10,000 anti-malarial bed nets to families living in temporary camps on the border of Thailand and Burma. The First Lady of the United States, Laura Bush, joined by Executive Director of the UN Foundation's Nothing But Nets campaign, Elizabeth McKee Gore, delivered life saving nets to Dr. Cynthia Maung at the Mae Tao Clinic to give to needy families.
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Integrating efforts to control malaria and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) is an inexpensive and effective solution to reduce the incidence of deadly tropical anemia in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new analysis published in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) Neglected Tropical Diseases. In this region, many people are co-infected with malaria and NTDs such as hookworm and schistosomiasis.
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The Ministry of Health of Côte d'Ivoire has declared a yellow fever outbreak in the capital, Abidjan. The outbreak was laboratory confirmed at the beginning of May 2008. In June 2008, WHO deployed a GOARN mission (the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network) of two experts in order to assess the epidemiological and entomological situation and to investigate the risk of a full scale urban yellow fever outbreak.
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Scientists have found a new method for delivering a malaria vaccine using the cold and pox viruses which could hold the key to success in combating the disease.
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A professor at The Faculty of Health Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) is beginning an intensive program in Ethiopia this August to eradicate intestinal worms which affect as much as 50 percent of the population in Africa.
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The malaria parasite has waged a successful guerrilla war against the human immune system for eons, but a study in this week's Journal of Biological Chemistry has exposed one of the tricks malaria uses to hide from the immune proteins, which may aid in future drug development. Malaria parasites (plasmodia) are transmitted to people via infected mosquitoes.
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An analysis by the humanitarian medical aid organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, Doctors without Borders) has found that between 1996 and 2004 MSF was responsible for about a quarter of all clinical studies of malaria medicine efficacy in 18 countries of Africa and Asia.
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Researchers at the University of Minnesota have found that cerebral malaria is related to long-term cognitive impairment in one of four child survivors. The research is published in the current issue of the journal Pediatrics. Malaria is a leading cause of death for children in sub-Saharan Africa. Cerebral malaria, which affects more than 750,000 children a year, is one of the deadliest forms of malaria.
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President Bush on Saturday during his weekly radio address said he is eager to sign legislation (HR 5501) that would reauthorize the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief through 2013, the AP/Google.com reports (Reichmann, AP/Google.com, 7/26).
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Upstream Biosciences Inc. (OTCBB: UPBS) announced that it is collaborating with Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda to evaluate the efficacy in animals of more than 20 proprietary drug candidates as potential treatments for Leishmaniasis in humans. Drug resistance has greatly reduced the effectiveness of existing Leishmaniasis treatments. Joel L.
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People infected with parasitic worms that cause schistosomiasis might be more susceptible to HIV and more likely to transmit the virus, according to a study published Tuesday in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Reuters reports. According to Reuters, the findings might help explain why HIV particularly has affected regions like sub-Saharan Africa.
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