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Golfer back after malaria setback
World First Travel Insurance
An American golfer who suffered malaria after being bitten by a mosquito has returned to action. Natalie Gulbis is back on the course, playing the Kraft Nabisco Championship at Mission Hills after she was infected by a mosquito at an LPGA event in ...

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Malaria Kills 300, 000 Children Yearly in Nigeria - Health Experts
AllAfrica.com
Health experts have said that malaria was responsible for 30 percent childhood deaths estimated at 300, 000 every year in Nigeria. The experts however said that malaria was responsible for 25 percent infant deaths while it is responsible for 11 percent ...

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Malaria Kills 300, 000
Leadership Newspapers
Health experts have said that malaria was responsible for 30 percent childhood deaths estimated at 300, 000 every year in Nigeria. The experts however said that malaria was responsible for 25 percent infant deaths while it is responsible for 11 percent ...

Malaria cases in Goa Medical College decreased in 2012, dengue cases shot up
Times of India
PANAJI: While there was a slight decrease in the number of malaria cases in Goa for 2012 as compared to the previous year, there was also a rise in the number of dengue cases for the year 2012 as compared to 2011 as reported by the Goa Medical College ...

The Mercury
Malaria work earns award
The Mercury
Dr Smith, 26, of Dromedary, is an international leader in research through her discovery of an anti-malarial compound. "This work is one of the most important discoveries to come out of research laboratories at the Menzies Institute in Hobart," Premier ...

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Malaria not under control in Saxacalli
Stabroek News
Here in Saxacalli malaria is never under control, for instance during last year only two homes were not hit by this dreaded disease. For this year we have had many cases already. Although our health post is manned by a health worker trained to diagnose ...

Artemisinin resistance in rodent malaria - mutation in the AP2 adaptor mu ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
The control of malaria, caused by Plasmodium falciparum, is hampered by the relentless evolution of drug resistance. Because artemisinin derivatives are now used in the most effective anti-malarial therapy, resistance to artemisinin would be catastrophic.

Rivers Emerges Top in Malaria Control
AllAfrica.com
Speaking during the presentation of the award to the Rivers State Health Commissioner Dr. Sampson Parker in his office in Port Harcourt, the World Bank Specialist in charge of Malaria, Dr. Moriam Jagun commended the state for doing so much in the fight ...

Panadol to raise £100000 for Malaria No More UK over two months
UK Fundraising
Panadol is not of course a cure or a preventative for malaria. Panadol Brand Manager Renata Amaral explained: "as a global expert in pain relief for more than 50 years, Panadol wants to help others less fortunate around the world to protect their ...

Slate Magazine
Why Is the WHO Opposed to an Effective Anti-Malarial Tea?
Slate Magazine
The tea comes from sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua), the Chinese plant that is a source for the world's most powerful anti-malarial treatments, which combine artemisinin derivatives with an older class of drugs. It can also be grown in wetter parts of ...

War of Ideas: While focusing on AIDS and malaria in the developing world, are ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
According to some projections, non-communicable diseases will account for 54 percent of the global disease burden by 2030, while communicable disease will fall to 32 percent. And while conditions like cancer and diabetes were once thought of as the ...

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Natalie Gulbis excited for return to Kraft Nabisco Championship after malaria ...
The Desert Sun
RANCHO MIRAGE — Withdrawing from three tournaments in four weeks, Natalie Gulbis hasn't played a meaningful round of golf since late February in Thailand when she was bitten by a mosquito and contracted malaria. Initially described as flu-like ...
Golfer back after malaria setbackWorld First Travel Insurance
Asian golf hazard: Gulbis back, but malaria's effects remainThe Courier-Journal
Inbee Park takes 3-shot lead in Kraft NabiscoUSA TODAY

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Philly.com
Natalie Gulbis back from malaria at Rancho Mirage
Yahoo! Sports
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) -- Natalie Gulbis is returning to play in the Kraft Nabisco Championship after recovering from malaria. Infected by a mosquito during the LPGA Thailand event, Gulbis withdrew after the first round the following week in Singapore.
Gulbis makes her return at the Kraft NabiscoThe Desert Sun (blog)
Natalie Gulbis on the health hazards of traveling the worldLos Angeles Times

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Los Angeles Times
Natalie Gulbis back from malaria at Rancho Mirage
MiamiHerald.com
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. -- Natalie Gulbis will return to play in the Kraft Nabisco Championship after recovering from malaria. Infected by a mosquito during the LPGA Thailand event, Gulbis withdrew after the first round the following week in Singapore.
Gulbis makes her return at the Kraft NabiscoThe Desert Sun (blog)
Natalie Gulbis on the health hazards of traveling the worldLos Angeles Times

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Agency sought for global anti-malaria campaign
PRWeek
The communications hunt follows a warning last year from research group Malaria Atlas Trust that the $2.55 billion spent in 2010 was less than half the estimated amount needed to control the disease globally. It is estimated that malaria kills 1.2 ...

Sarawak Biodiversity Centre to host talk on malaria April 26
The Borneo Post
Prof Balbir Singh, from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas), will describe the work that led to the discovery of a large number of human Plasmodium knowlesi malaria infections in Kapit Division, followed by ...

Countdown nears for final 1,000 days of MDGs, GMAP Financing, 7th Meeting of the RBM Case Management Working Group (CMWG), In a relatively quiet region of Mali, programme targets malaria deaths, Can We Save More Than Four Million Children's Lives In the Next 1,000 Days?, SARN mission reports 2013...

Agency sought for global anti-malaria campaign
PRWeek UK
The comms hunt follows a warning last year from res-earcher group Malaria Atlas Trust that the US$2.55bn (£1.69bn) spent in 2010 was less than half the estimated amount needed to control the disease globally. It is estimated that malaria kills 1.2 ...

SitNews
Alaska mosquitoes spreading malaria in birds
SitNews
(SitNews) - Thousands of Alaska mosquitoes are now on sabbatical at the University of California, Davis. They are not pestering suntanned Californians. Researchers are analyzing their tiny corpses to see if the parasites that cause malaria are inside them.

Gulbis, still recovering from malaria, back in action
USA TODAY
As for Wednesday, however, Gulbis doesn't know how she'll feel, the result of lingering effects from malaria she contracted a month ago in Asia. "I feel good some days, and other days, not so much," Gulbis told USA TODAY Sports. "I thought I could come ...