Sentences with phrase «war against malaria»

And despite the fact that DDT has been associated with other ill - health effects as well, like Alzheimer's disease, obesity, and kidney and ovarian diseases, a number of countries still use it in the war against malaria.

In the war against malaria, one small corner of the globe has repeatedly turned the tide, rendering our best weapons moot and medicine on the brink of defeat.

A group of insect geneticists, genome researchers, and funding officials has put together a plan to open a new front in the war against malaria: the sequencing of the genome of Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito primarily responsible for spreading the disease in Africa.

In waging war against malaria, no weapon has proved perfect, no judgment completely unflawed.