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GSK aims to market world's first malaria vaccine
2013-10-08 03:15:57| Biotech - Topix.net
British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline will seek marketing approval for the world's first malaria vaccine next year after trial data showed the shot significantly cut cases of the disease in African children.
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Study shows projected climate change in West Africa not likely to worsen malaria situation
2013-09-16 10:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: As public-health officials continue to fight malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, researchers are trying to predict how climate change will impact the disease, which infected an estimated 219 million people in 2010 and is the fifth leading cause of death worldwide among children under age 5. But projections of future malaria infection have been hampered by wide variation in rainfall predictions for the region and lack of a malaria-transmission model that adequately describes the effects of local rainfall...
Investigational malaria vaccine found safe and protective
2013-08-09 09:03:42| Biotech - Topix.net
An investigational malaria vaccine has been found to be safe, to generate an immune system response, and to offer protection against malaria infection in healthy adults, according to the results of an early-stage clinical trial published Aug. 8 in the journal Science.
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Climate changes could bring malaria to the UK
2013-05-05 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Leading health experts are urging the government to take action against the growing threat that mosquito-borne diseases, including potentially fatal malaria, could soon arrive in the UK. The disturbing recommendation to "act now before it is too late" is being made as a growing body of evidence indicates that what were once thought of as tropical diseases are being found ever closer to the UK. Health experts meeting at the annual public health conference of the Chartered Institute of Environmental...
Parasite 'resistant to malaria drug'
2013-04-29 02:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: New drug-resistant strains of the parasite that causes malaria have been identified by scientists. Researchers found parasites in western Cambodia that are genetically different from other strains around the world. These organisms are able to withstand treatment by artemisinin - a frontline drug in the fight against malaria. Reports of drug resistance in the area first emerged in 2008. The problem has since spread to other parts of South East Asia. The study is published in the journal...
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