Work undertaken during this period included demonstration of the efficacy of insecticide treated bed - nets in preventing
death from malaria in African children and demonstration of the impact of Haemophilus influenzae type b and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines when deployed in sub-Saharan Africa.
Not exact matches
Andrew Batholomaeus, a consultant toxicologist at Australia's University of Canberra and the University of Queensland, states that «the potential human health consequences of discouraging the use of pyriproxyfen
in drinking water storage and other mosquito - reduction programs is catastrophic with potential
deaths and serious disease
from otherwise avoidable
malaria, dengue and other mosquito - borne diseases numbered
in at least the hundreds of thousands.»
The global health community and a coalition of public - private initiatives has successfully begun taming the scourge, with a 21 % decrease
in its global incidence and 29 % drop
in mortality rate between 2010 and 2015; still, there were 212 million
malaria cases worldwide and nearly 430,000
deaths from the disease
in 2015, according to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) figures.
In South Africa, they've nearly eliminated
deaths from malaria.
And when mom dies a completely «natural»
death from untreated HIV / AIDS, TB,
Malaria, Cholera (the list goes on and on) the older children will have to start looking after the younger children resulting
in thousands of child headed households.
From 2000 through 2015, the scale - up of
malaria prevention and treatment interventions saved approximately 6.8 million lives globally, and
malaria death rates
in Africa were cut by more than half.
Eran Bendavid of Stanford University, US, discussing the research
in an accompanying Perspective, says: «Averting
deaths of young children
from malaria or vaccine - preventable diseases such as polio or measles promotes more stable and prosperous societies.
This study's finding — based on analysis of data
from 1995 to 2014 — that the decline
in under - five
death was also accompanied by increases
in PMI - funded
malaria prevention technologies, such as insecticide treated nets and indoor residual spraying that are known to be effective
malaria interventions, provides compelling and important new evidence of the likely effects of PMI funding.
This will provide information that could be used to illuminate how
malaria — a disease which causes more than half a million
deaths a year — is spread
from human to human by parasite - infected female mosquitoes which bite people to feed on blood they need
in order to reproduce.
A Michigan State University researcher is challenging a widely held African belief that a spinal tap, a procedure safely used to treat other diseases, could suck the brain
from the base of the skull and cause
death in malaria patients.
Globally, four million (4.02 million) fewer child
deaths occurred
in 2015 than
in 2000, mainly thanks to reductions
in deaths from pneumonia, diarrhea,
death during birth,
malaria and measles.
Unless better drugs arrive soon
in their villages and towns,
deaths from malaria will most likely double
in coming years.
Progress since 2000 has largely been due to reductions
in the rates of
deaths from pneumonia, diarrhea,
malaria, measles and
deaths during birth - each reduced by more than 30 % worldwide between 2000 and 2015.
Increased pressure
in the brain can lead to
death in many children who fall into coma
from cerebral
malaria, which is the most severe form of the disease.
I recently recalled that little girl and countless other children saved
from certain
death by chloroquine because I was reading about 80 U.S. Marines struck with falciparum
malaria a few weeks after deploying to Liberia
in August 2003.
Among children under the age of 5 — the group at the highest risk of severe disease and
death from malaria — there were 16 % fewer cases
in the villages that received ivermectin at 3 - week intervals.
In 1954 molecular biologist Anthony C. Alison had surmised that alterations in the hemoglobin molecule protected against death from malari
In 1954 molecular biologist Anthony C. Alison had surmised that alterations
in the hemoglobin molecule protected against death from malari
in the hemoglobin molecule protected against
death from malaria.
Dondorp's study showed that compared with an older drug called quinine, a new one called artesunate reduces the risk of
death from severe
malaria in African children by 23 % — a finding that could save tens or even hundreds of thousands of lives annually.
It is an estimation of the current (as of 2000) existing rate of annual
deaths reasonably attributable to climate change, albeit
from a limited subset of climate - related health impacts:
malaria due to an increase
in the geographic range of disease - bearing mosquitoes, malnutrition associated with loss of agricultural productivity, water - borne diarrheal diseases, and
deaths from flooding, McMichael says.
According to the World
Malaria Report, there were 214 million cases of malaria globally in 2015 and 438,000 deaths from the disease — down 37 and 60 percent, respectively, sinc
Malaria Report, there were 214 million cases of
malaria globally in 2015 and 438,000 deaths from the disease — down 37 and 60 percent, respectively, sinc
malaria globally
in 2015 and 438,000
deaths from the disease — down 37 and 60 percent, respectively, since 2000.
Instead,
in a chart on page 26 of the report on «expected fatalities per year, worldwide,
from a variety of causes,» asteroids are compared with shark attacks (three to seven
deaths), firearms accidents (2,500), earthquakes (36,000),
malaria (one million), traffic accidents (1.2 million), air pollution (two million), HIV / AIDS (2.1 million) and tobacco (five million).
Douglas Postels, a pediatric neurologist
in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, is challenging a widely held African belief that a spinal tap, a procedure safely used to treat other diseases, could suck the brain
from the base of the skull and cause
death in malaria patients.
I would later learn that
in 2008, there were 247 million cases of
malaria and nearly one million
deaths in the world — mostly among children living
in Africa, where a child dies every 45 seconds
from it, 3,000 of those are children under the age of five.
Malaria is still one of the leading causes of
death in Africa and other areas, with 655,000 people dying every year
from the virus that is spread by mosquitos.
There might be some benefits, too: parasites such as
malaria could also contract
in some present parts of their range, and some regions might see a reduction
in deaths from cold exposure.
Counterfeit medications might be responsible for an additional 116,000
deaths from malaria mostly
in sub-Saharan Africa, according to scientists at the University of Edinburgh and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine»
In the event, it turned out (after the hue and cry had died down) that DDT's toxicity had been wildly exaggerated, and that cessation of its use had resulted in millions of African deaths from malari
In the event, it turned out (after the hue and cry had died down) that DDT's toxicity had been wildly exaggerated, and that cessation of its use had resulted
in millions of African deaths from malari
in millions of African
deaths from malaria.
''... the five U.S. researchers linked reported
malaria cases and deaths from the years 1996 to 2006 that they obtained from the World Malaria Report (2008) for ten countries in western Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo) with corresponding climate data they obtained from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center... Jackson et al. report that their analyses showed that «very little correlation exists between rates of malaria prevalence and climate indicators in western Africa.
malaria cases and
deaths from the years 1996 to 2006 that they obtained
from the World
Malaria Report (2008) for ten countries in western Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo) with corresponding climate data they obtained from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center... Jackson et al. report that their analyses showed that «very little correlation exists between rates of malaria prevalence and climate indicators in western Africa.
Malaria Report (2008) for ten countries
in western Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo) with corresponding climate data they obtained
from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center... Jackson et al. report that their analyses showed that «very little correlation exists between rates of
malaria prevalence and climate indicators in western Africa.
malaria prevalence and climate indicators
in western Africa.»
«
From 1564 to the 1730s — the coldest period of the Little Ice Age —
malaria was an important cause of illness and
death in several parts of England.
«Increased ITN coverage
in Kenya has resulted
in 44 per cent fewer
deaths in children, and increases
in the birth weight of babies, according to preliminary data
from the
Malaria Control Department of the Kenyan Ministry of Health, announced at a meeting
in Nairobi last week (16 August).»
For example, the early prohibition on the use of DDT ignored all of the scientific evidence and was a disaster because it indirectly led to the
death of many millions of people
from malaria in other countries.
Yes, (part of) the current problems
in pollution control, disease, starvation increases, and
deaths (
from malaria, dengue fever, tsetse fly, etc.) ARE due to the «climate scientists» making undue and improper predictions based on their chosen theory of CO2 = Bad For The World, We Must Control It.
India has made significant progress
in decreasing the number of cases of
malaria and the number of
deaths caused by the disease (although the official numbers of rural Indians dying
from malaria remains underestimated).