Showing posts with label Malaria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malaria. Show all posts

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Combining Vaccines and Mosquito Nets worsens Malaria

According to WHO, a child dies every minute from malaria. This deadly disease killed up to 600,000 people in 2013 and most of them are children in Africa.
New statistics shows that at least half of the population of people in malaria prone areas have access to insecticide treated mosquito nets.

 It is known that a first malaria bite to a child could be deadly. But after surviving this stage, further bites from mosquitoes helps the child to develop immunity

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Vitamin A Prevents Malaria in Children

According to a research by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, published in eLife(journal), a single large dose of Vitamin A could prevent malaria in children under 5 years by 54%. This is for regions under Sub-Sahara Africa like Nigeria.

vitamin A can reduce malaria in children

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