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}}

References

• {{mnb|OnePointThree|1}} Scott P. Layne, M.D. UCLA Department of Epidemiology, "Principles of Infectious Disease Epidemiology / EPI 220"
• {{mnb|Cost|2}} Medecins Sans Frontieres, "What is the Cost and Who Will Pay?".
• {{mnb|DrugResistance|3}} "Malaria drug resistance warning", BBC News, 2005-06-06.
• {{mnb|DDT|4}} New Yorker, "The Mosquito Killer", 2001-07-02. PDF of the same article Also available in PDF.
• {{mnb|Funding|5}} Sarah Boseley, "Malaria crisis may doom Africa progress, MPs say" The Guardian, 2005-06-09
• {{mnb|TwentyFive|6}} "The $25 billion question". The Economist. July 2nd-8th, 2005. p. 24
• {{mnb|Permit|7}} The Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants
• {{mnb|Vacc|8}} The malaria vaccine initiative
• {{mnb|Vacc2|9}} Fiona MacGregor, "Scots scientists boost malaria vaccine quest", The Scotsman, 2005-01-16.
• {{mnb|Ghosh|10}} Ito J, Ghosh A, Moreira LA, Wimmer EA, Jacobs-Lorena M. Transgenic anopheline mosquitoes impaired in transmission of a malaria parasite. Nature 2002;417:387-8. PMID 12024215
• {{mnb|Transgenic1|11}} Imperial College, London, "Scientists create first transgenic malaria mosquito", 2000-06-22.
• {{mnb|Transgenic2|12}} Jacobs-Lorena et al, "Researchers genetically alter mosquitoes to impair malaria transmission", Case-Western, 2002.
• {{mnb|fungus|13}} "BBC report Fungus 'may help malaria fight'", BBC News, 2005-06-09
• Pattanasin S, Proux S, Chompasuk D, Luwiradaj K, Jacquier P, Looareesuwan S, Nosten F (2003) 'Evaluation of a new Plasmodium lactate dehydrogenase assay (OptiMAL-IT®) for the detection of malaria' Transact Royal Soc Trop Med 97:672-4.