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World Malaria Day: It's possible to eradicate it, but challenges remain say experts
India's vision to be malaria-free by 2027 and to eliminate the disease by 2030 is absolutely possib…
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A Marylander who hadn't recently traveled internationally caught malaria. Officials say it's the state's first 'locally acquired' case in 40 years.
Maryland officials are grappling with the state's first local case of malaria in four decades. It f…
Katie Balevic
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India is on the path to end Malaria by 2030 — but dengue is spreading fast and wide
In 2019, as many as 27 people died in West Bengal due to dengue outbreaks which affected 44,000 peo…
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The WHO recommends the world's first malaria vaccine, saying the shots could 'save tens of thousands of young lives each year'
The WHO's recommendation is based on results from a campaign in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi that vacci…
Jake Epstein
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India records the largest reduction in malaria cases in SE Asia between 2000-2019: WHO
Last year, the disease claimed about 409,000 lives, compared to 411,000 in 2018. "Countri…
PTI
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Emails show Mehmet Oz pushed Jared Kushner and the White House to use an anti-malaria drug as a Covid treatment, which the WHO later strongly recommended against
"We cannot hide behind study protocols if we are not allowed to proceed," Dr. Mehmet Oz wrote in hi…
Matthew Loh
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Ebola makes a comeback in the Republic of Congo — which is already fighting the coronavirus and the world's largest outbreak of measles
The Ebola virus resurgence has been reported in the Wangata health…
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Dr. Oz owns stock in companies that supply hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug he pushed the White House to use as unproven COVID treatment
Dr. Oz emailed the White House pushing the anti-malaria drug before trials were completed. Numerous…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Photo Essay: As we celebrate the first malaria vaccine, remembering the epidemic's staggering toll
Photographer Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi documented the malaria epidemic's toll during one of the worst …
Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi
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Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison reportedly urged Trump to explore a malaria drug to treat the coronavirus
Elon Musk - the CEO of Tesla, where Ellison is a board member - has also been promoting chloroquine…
Avery Hartmans
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In all the noise around COVID-19 — the risks from malaria, dengue and chikungunya are ignored
Vector-borne diseases like malaria, dengue and chikungunya aren’t cheap for India. They carry a soc…
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What is the Marburg virus? WHO confirms outbreak of the deadly viral disease in Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania
The CDC on Thursday issued a health advisory warning to doctors in the US, prompting them to watch …
Erin Snodgrass
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The local Fox affiliate reporter who claimed the station was 'muzzling' her' was fired for the on-air stunt
Hecker released recordings Tuesday which she said show her former station censoring stories about d…
Erin Snodgrass
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FDA warns of heart risks with Trump-promoted malaria drug
In Friday's report in the journal Nature Medicine, doctors at New York University and NYU Langone …
PTI
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More than 3.3 million people lost life to COVID-19 in 2021 — more than HIV, malaria and tuberculosis related deaths combined in 2020
The World Health Organisation (WHO), on Tuesday, revealed that more than 3.3 million people lost th…
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Pak floods: WHO concerned about water-borne diseases
In a statement issued by WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the global health watchdog said w…
PTI
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The malaria pill hydroxycholoroquine failed to help coronavirus patients in 2 big studies
Two observational studies looking at thousands of hospitalized New Yorkers found that the drug's us…
Lydia Ramsey
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India still hangs back in the routine immunisation programme: WHO-UNICEF report
The Southeast Asian region registers about 37 million births annually and about 88% of these new…
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CM Nitish Kumar to hold internal meeting as Encephalitis death toll crosses 100
Bihar is witnessing an outbreak of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) as the death toll crossed 1…
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Rita Wilson says she was given an anti-malaria drug to treat the coronavirus and had 'extreme side effects'
Rita Wilson had "extreme side effects" after taking an anti-malarial drug called chloroquine to tre…