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In a wooden hut on the Thai-Burmese border, a community health worker pricks the finger of six-month-old Tannakorn, who lets out a whimper. Fifteen minutes and a blood test later, his mother is given good news. Tannakorn’s fever is not malaria and he can go home. It is an unremarkable exchange, repeated thousands of times every day in South East ...

Malaria is a dangerous disease with pregnant women and children most vulnerable. Mortein Insecticide calls on all moms across Africa to join Mortein and lend their voices in the fight against malaria. World Malaria Day was April 25, 2012. Song composed by Cobhams Asuquo Lyrics by Cobhams Asuquo and Omawumi Director – Iykeman (Urban Touch) Concept by LTC Advertising Limited ...

Scientists believe they have discovered the malaria parasite’s Achilles heel after identifying the group of proteins the disease needs to survive in the human body. Researchers at the University of Leicester, with teams from Lausanne in Switzerland, and Canada, hope their discovery will provide a breakthrough in battling the disease, which causes more than 780,000 deaths every year. Andrew Tobin, ...

Liberia’s opposition leader Winston Tubman has been flown to the neighboring Ghana to receive medical attention after he was reported to have collapsed, the Liberian Daily Observer reports. Counselor Winston Tubman is the flag bearer of Liberia’s opposition Congress for Democratic Change, CDC. A source at the United Nations Hospital in Liberia where Tubman was first rushed to after he ...