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Malaria deaths rise by 69,000 in 2020 due to COVID-19

Reuters
Posted at Dec 07 07:23 AM

Healthcare disruptions linked to the coronavirus pandemic helped malaria kill 69,000 more people in 2020 than the previous year. Read more »

WHO OKs use of first malaria vaccine for children

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 07 05:08 AM

Malaria symptoms include fever, headaches and muscle pain, then cycles of chills, fever and sweating. Read more »

COVID worsens fight vs HIV, TB, malaria: Global Fund

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 08 07:34 AM

The COVID-19 pandemic had a "devastating" impact on the fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria in 2020, according to a report released by the Global Fund on Wednesday. Read more »

After COVID jab, BioNTech sets sights on malaria vaccine

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 27 06:38 AM

Germany's BioNTech, which developed a coronavirus vaccine with US giant Pfizer in record time, said Monday it aimed to start trialing a malaria vaccine next year using the same breakthrough mRNA technology.   Read more »

‘Landmark’ advance, as malaria vaccine first to hit WHO goal

Anna Malpas, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 24 04:13 AM

A new malaria vaccine has proven 77 percent effective in trials on infants, British researchers said Friday, in what could prove to be a potential game-changer against the deadly mosquito-borne disease.   Read more »

7 of top 10 killers pre-COVID era were non-communicable diseases: WHO

Robin Millard, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 10 06:59 AM

The WHO's new Global Health Estimates, adding 2019 data to statistics going back to 2000, found that people were living longer lives -- but those extra years were not necessarily lived in good health. Read more »

WHO warns malaria fight flat-lining

Robin Millard, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 30 10:39 AM

Progress in eliminating malaria has stalled in recent years, the World Health Organization said Monday, with more than 400,000 people once again estimated to have died from the disease last year. Read more »

Unbreakable? After malaria and COVID-19, man survives cobra bite in India

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 22 12:09 AM

A British charity worker who survived coronavirus, dengue and malaria was recovering after a potentially deadly snake bite in western India's Rajasthan state.    Read more »

Invasive Asian mosquito species threatens African cities: study

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 15 08:28 AM

WASHINGTON - A species of mosquito originally from Asia threatens to put tens of millions of city-dwellers in Africa at higher risk of catching malaria as the invading insect spreads throughout the continent, a study said Monday.   Read more »

Fighting mosquito-borne diseases... with mosquitoes

Nicolas Gubert and Amélie Baubeau, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 27 06:28 AM

As infection rates of illnesses carried by mosquitoes increase, companies and researchers are racing to develop effective means of controlling the blood-sucking creatures' population. Read more »

Pandemic risks 'surge' in infectious disease deaths

Patrick Galey, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 14 07:16 AM

PARIS, France - Poorer nations could see hundreds of thousands of additional deaths from HIV, tuberculosis and malaria as COVID-19 disrupts vital health services and access to life-saving treatment, new research warned Tuesday. Read more »

WHO halts trial of malaria drug in COVID-19 patients

Kate Kelland and Emma Farge, Reuters
Posted at Jun 18 09:27 AM

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that testing of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in its large multi-country trial of treatments for COVID-19 patients had been halted after new data and studies showed no benefit.   Read more »

How a vaccine made of mosquito spit could help stop the next epidemic

Clare Baldwin, Reuters
Posted at Jun 12 07:12 AM

The vaccine, if it pans out, would protect against all of the pathogens the insects inject into humans - malaria, dengue, chikungunya, Zika, yellow fever, West Nile, Mayaro viruses and anything else that may emerge. Read more »

Proofs that life will go back to the old normal

Roberty Labayen
Posted at Jun 09 12:06 AM

With modern medicine, it has been proven that humankind eventually defeats even a mega killer disease. Read more »

Malaria drug touted by Trump fails to prevent COVID-19 in high profile study

Michael Erman, Reuters
Posted at Jun 04 07:50 AM

The malaria drug promoted by US President Donald Trump as a treatment for COVID-19 was ineffective in preventing infection in people exposed to the coronavirus, according to a widely anticipated clinical trial released on Wednesday.  Read more »

Hydroxychloroquine: a drug dividing the world

Jean-Philippe Chognot, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 02 11:42 AM

Banned in some countries, promoted in others -- the drug hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for the new coronavirus is dividing opinion worldwide.   Read more »

WHO suspends hydroxychloroquine trial as COVID-19 treatment

Nina Larson, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 26 03:21 AM

The World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday it had temporarily suspended clinical trials of hydroxychloriquine as a potential treatment for COVID-19 being carried out across a range of countries as a precautionary measure.   Read more »

How viruses change the world, and how it can be good

Robert Labayen
Posted at May 18 10:31 AM

It is unfortunate that many have died from Covid-19. The only comfort we may have is to be able to find good things in the bad.  Read more »

EMA warns against malaria drugs' side effects in COVID-19 use

Reuters
Posted at Apr 23 08:51 PM

The European Union's drug regulator warned again on Thursday against using two older malaria drugs to treat COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus, outside trials or national emergency use programs, citing potentially lethal side-effects. Read more »

US govt experts warn against coronavirus drug combo promoted by Trump

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 23 01:01 AM

A US government expert panel has formally recommended against using a drug combination promoted by President Donald Trump to fight the coronavirus, because of its potential harmful impact on the heart.   Read more »