Sentences with phrase «to control malaria»

Efforts to control malaria in Asia must be stepped up urgently «before it becomes close to untreatable».

Green malaria tools: Pesticide companies and public health agencies are trying to develop low - toxic and inexpensive — yet powerful and long - lasting — new insecticides and other technologies for controlling malaria.

Snell is particularly encouraged by the possibility of controlling malaria, which is caused by the single - celled protozoan Plasmodium falciparum.

Among them is South Africa, which claims significant success in controlling malaria since DDT was reintroduced to that country in 2000.

Treaty negotiators made an exception for DDT used to control malaria after a small group of malaria experts argued that there was no effective substitute.

Immunization and controlled malaria infection.

Current attempts to control malaria with drugs and insecticides are in danger of failing because of the problems of resistance and there is no immediate prospect of a vaccine.

Of course, just because Australia could control malaria doesn't mean the country isn't safe from changes in disease vectors that result from climate change.

«I'm skeptical that the Anopheles mosquito genome will actually be useful in attempts to control malaria in very poor countries and I have a feeling that projects on the genome are done because molecular biologists think they can be done and are exciting to do.

Rapid sequencing of parasite genomes from the blood of infected people is a powerful way of detecting changes in the parasite population, and potentially an important new surveillance tool in the armamentarium for controlling malaria.»

Chris Curtis, Professor of Medical Entomology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who works on practical methods of controlling malaria, said:

«I'm very relieved,» says Andrea Crisanti, a molecular parasitologist at Imperial College London, who is part of an effort that seeks to use gene drives to control malaria.

An effective vaccine would make it easier to control malaria; vaccination campaigns could be conducted in severely affected areas to eliminate the pathogen.

But if you want to control malaria, it's fine to let mosquitoes reproduce; the trick is to prevent them from transmitting malaria — which they only do at the ripe old age of 10 to 14 days.

Insecticides can control malaria, but only in the short run.

Enough to control Malaria.

Here's the portion of that commentary that reminds us of «The Charge»: «Beginning in the 1970s, regulators around the world followed Rachel Carson's suggestion that lawmakers ban the pesticide DDT, once used to control malaria, because they figured bed nets and other measures were enough.