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These infections are often fatal in young children who have not yet had a chance to develop a strong immune response to the parasite. (Photo: Pixabay)

Deadliest strains may help design malaria vaccine

This is the first time anyone has taken the parasite genes that are in the blood of patients and sequenced everything...

25 March 2018 2:27 PM IST

The latest WHO figures show that malaria infected about 216 million people in 2016. (Photo: Pixabay)

Discovery of malaria parasite survival genes offers new targets

Latest World Health Organization (WHO) data show that 216 million people were infected last year with the malaria...

7 May 2018 8:21 AM IST

The spread of artemisinin resistance in Africa would be a major setback in the fight against malaria (Photo: AFP)

African researchers find drug-resistant malaria parasite

Malaria infected more than 200 million people and killed some 438,000 people worldwide in 2015, most of them children in...

23 Feb 2017 1:07 PM IST

Scientists say that if the cure is not found soon, the disease might just become incurable. (Photo: Pixabay)

Malaria spreading faster than can be controlled, scientists say

The rate at which the drug-resistant parasite is spreading will make it difficult for scientists to find appropriate...

2 Feb 2017 12:17 PM IST