Malaria

Malaria (Italian: "bad air"; formerly called ague or marsh fever in English) is an infectious disease which in humans causes about 350-500 million infections and approximately 1.3 million deaths annually, mainly in the tropics. Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 85% of these fatalities.{{mn|OnePointThree|1}}

External links

• CDC site on malaria
• Doctors Without Frontiers/Medecins Sans Frontieres Malaria information pages
• LookSmart - Malaria directory category
• Medline Plus site on malaria
• Open Directory Project - Malaria directory category
• WHO site on malaria
• Yahoo! - Malaria directory category
• Net Gain: Free Online Book on Insecticide treated nets for the prevention of malaria
• Malaria parasite interactions with the human host
• Developing artemisinin based drug combinations for the treatment of drug resistant falciparum malaria: A review
• Management of severe falciparum malaria

Vaccine and other research

• BBC - Hopes of Malaria Vaccine by 2010 15 October 2004
• BBC - Science shows how malaria hides 8 April 2005
• History of discoveries in malaria
• History of Malaria in Spain
• Malaria. The UNICEF-UNDP-World Bank-WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases
• Malaria Vaccine Initiative
• New Scientist - New Malaria Vaccine Raises High Hopes 15 October 2004
• Story of the discovery of the vector of the malarial parasite
• Wellcome Trust against Malaria

DDT

• The DDT Ban Myth

Animations, images and photos

• Burden of Malaria, BBC pictures relating to malaria in northern Uganda
• Malaria: Cooperation among Parasite, Vector, and Host (Animation)