Sentences with phrase «of deaths from malaria»

That list includes two of the most infamous, discredited scientist - activists of the 20th Century — Carson, whose fake analysis led to the global ban on DDT that has caused millions of deaths from malaria, and Ehrlich, whose absurd visions of a «population bomb» laid the foundation for China's horrific One Child policy.34 The third icon listed by Brulle, Barry Commoner, was far better known as a political activist and «eco-socialist» presidential candidate than as a scientist.

The environmental movement has a lot to answer for, including out of control forest fires, millions of deaths from malaria, and so on.

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.»

From the late 1950s to the 1970s, chloroquine - resistant malaria parasites spread across Asia and then into Africa, leading to a resurgence of malaria cases and millions of deaths.

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.

Perhaps it will be needless deaths from poor maternal health care or lack of immunizations or malaria mosquito nets.

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.

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.

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.

To test this idea, the researchers statistically analyzed the relationship between Lynn and Vanhanen's 2006 data and 2004 data on infectious disease burden from the World Health Organization, which measures potential years of healthy life lost to premature death and illness as a result of 28 infectious diseases, including malaria, hepatitis, and tetanus.

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.

Plasmodium falciparum, a blood - borne parasite carried by mosquitoes, is responsible for most of the estimated 219 million cases, and 655,000 deaths, from malaria per year.

«Plasmodium falciparum is the most deadly form of malaria parasite, causing most of the 800,000 deaths from malaria each year.

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, sincMalaria Report, there were 214 million cases of malaria globally in 2015 and 438,000 deaths from the disease — down 37 and 60 percent, respectively, sincmalaria 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.

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.

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.

The number of deaths from this kind of indoor air pollution currently kills more people each year than malaria or tuberculosis according to the IEA report.»

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»

He discussed the escalating scale of impacts we could expect from unchecked climate change: from deaths and injuries from heat, to pollution, food - related illnesses, altered vectors for diseases such as malaria, crop failure and water shortages, mass migration, resource wars, economic collapse, and ecosystem collapse with mass extinctions.

World Health Organisation figures show that cooking on traditional open fires his a hidden killer — responsible for the death of 4 million people a year — more than die from Malaria, Tuberculosis and HIV combined.

This suffering included 302,000 deaths per year from malaria, diarrhoea and malnutrition attributed to climate change, claimed the report, out of 7,550,000 deaths from the same diseases.

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 malaria.

Or Paul Driessen, the author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death, saying things like: «It's incredibly patronising and colonialistic to tell Africa that you can't develop because we're concerned about global warming» — while arguing that funding the fight against global warming «takes money away from spending on malaria».

Between the start of the scientific evaluation of climate science, and its conclusion is an assumption that is deeply political: that the poverty that allows climate change to cause deaths from malaria is a natural phenomenon.

Recently, a new peer - reviewed study examining the data from western Africa once again confirms that climate change is not the cause of increased malaria infections or deaths.

''... 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).»

End the epidemics of HIV / AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases, reverse the spread of, and significantly reduce deaths from tuberculosis and malaria.

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).

The American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have an even higher estimate of children's deaths from diarrhea — 2,195 a day — more than HIV / AIDS, malaria and measles combined.