Re-posted -Why is the CDC based in Atlanta? Because Georgia was the center of malaria in the US and elimination of malaria from the US was the CDC's first job. It's hard to imagine but through the 1940's malaria was endemic

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Liaw Wy-Cin Straits Times 29 Aug 09;SCIENTISTS in Singapore have come up with a better faster and cheaper way of studying why some malaria parasites are becoming resistant to even the best drugs available.They have created a fluorescent chemical comp

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Related ArticlesKey gaps in the knowledge of Plasmodium vivax a neglected human malaria parasite.Lancet Infect Dis. 2009 Sep;9(9):555-66Authors: Mueller I Galinski MR Baird JK Carlton JM Kochar DK Alonso PL del Portillo HAPlasmodium vivax is geograph

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It is often claimed that global warming will lead to a greater risk of malaria. If one looks at the malaria "hot spots" in the world (see here) it is not hard to see that climate in

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August 25 2009The Online NewsHourPublic Broadcasting System (USA)Drug-resistant malaria is threatening villages in western Cambodia. NewsHour special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from the border region of Cambodia

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A new study in Bangladesh suggests tigecycline -- the first member of a new class of antibiotics -- might be effective against multi-drug-resistant malaria. Researchers said tigecycline shows significant anti-malarial activity on its own and can be administered in combination with traditional a ...