Category: Malaria
Plasmodium cynomolgi: potential emergence of new zoonotic malaria in Southeast Asia
BMC The reported cases of Plasmodium cynomolgi in Southeast Asia pose a significant public health concern. Sporadic reports of human Plasmodium cynomolgi infections have increased in the past few years, raising attention regarding its potential impact on human populations. Further compounding this issue are the morphological similarities between P. cynomolgi and the human malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax, which may lead to misdiagnosis […]
Apr 23, 2025
DRC Outbreak Linked to Malaria, Officials Confirm
News Central Africa Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed that a mysterious illness responsible for over 50 deaths earlier this year was malaria. The National Public Health Institute announced late Monday that laboratory tests identified malaria as the cause of the outbreak, which killed 52 people and affected nearly 1,000 others in Equateur province. Continue reading
Mar 26, 2025
Congo’s health ministry identifies flu-like disease as severe malaria
CBC Democratic Republic of Congo’s health ministry said on Tuesday that a previously unidentified disease circulating in the southwestern Kwango province is a severe form of malaria. Earlier this month, local authorities said the disease had killed 143 people in the country’s Panzi health zone in November. The symptoms of the disease are fever, headache, […]
Dec 17, 2024
DRC health ministry says mystery disease is ‘severe’ form of malaria
Guardian A previously unidentified disease circulating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a severe form of malaria, the country’s health ministry has said. Earlier this month, local authorities said the disease had killed 143 people in the south-west Kwango province in November. The symptoms of the disease are fever, headache, cough, runny nose and body aches. […]
Dec 17, 2024
Some patients in mysterious outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo have malaria, early testing reveals
CNN A mysterious illness outbreak that has sickened at least 416 people and killed 31 in a remote region of the Democratic Republic of Congo may be at least partly caused by malaria, health officials said Tuesday. Information on the situation is still limited. World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that of 12 initial samples […]
Dec 11, 2024
Infecting Pharaohs 4,000 years ago, Egypt Has Finally Been Declared Malaria-Free
Good News Network Egypt, one of the world’s 15 most populous nations, has been certified malaria-free after a ‘pharaonic’ effort that began 100 years ago. Killing nearly 600,000 people every year, almost all of whom dwell in Africa, the malarial transmission chain has been interrupted for three years in a row, proving that the Egyptian […]
Oct 22, 2024
France’s Airports Report Increased Odyssean Malaria Cases
Precision Vaccinations In recent years, there has been an increase in locally acquired malaria cases in Europe related to travelers returning from Africa, which shoulders the heaviest burden (90%+) of malaria disease reported. In 2022, over 99% of Europe’s 6,131 malaria cases (mean age 37.9 yrs) were travel-related. To guide control measures, researchers analyzed two decades […]
Oct 15, 2024
Cameroon starts world-first malaria mass vaccine rollout
BBC Video The world’s first routine vaccine programme against malaria has started in Cameroon, in a move projected to save thousands of children’s lives across Africa. The symbolic first jab was given to a baby girl named Daniella at a health facility near Yaoundé on Monday. Every year 600,000 people die of malaria in Africa, […]
Jan 23, 2024
Malaria: Big city mosquitoes are a big problem — and now a big target
NPR Goats & Soda About a decade ago, a new kind of mosquito began showing up in African cities. Native to Asia, Anopheles stephensi prefers crowded urban environments over rural ones. That spelled trouble: These mosquitoes transmit malaria. It’s especially bad news for Africa where more than 93% of the world’s quarter-billion malaria cases were identified last year. “The […]
Dec 5, 2023
Scientists at Johns Hopkins research malaria transmission following a positive case in Maryland
CBS News A team of scientists at Johns Hopkins Hospital are leading research efforts behind malaria transmission. Maryland health leaders earlier this month reported a resident tested positive for malaria despite not traveling outside of the United States or to another state with recent malaria cases. It’s the first case of malaria of that kind in decades. […]
Aug 29, 2023