The word 'malaria' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it whenever you need to refer to the disease caused by a parasite that is transmitted through mosquito bites. Example sentence: Malaria is one of the most common and deadly diseases in the world.
Researchers have also found that climate change-enhanced heat and humidity are conducive to the spread of falciparum malaria, the disease's deadliest strain.
This might not be a problem if it were a drug for TB, malaria or AIDS – but critics of the HPV donation asked why cervical cancer received such a comprehensive effort in Rwanda – reaching 95% for 11-year-old girls when disease incidence lags well behind other vaccine-preventable diseases in the developing world (read the Rwandan health minister's persuasive rebuttal).
In a single morning, they cover the ground – malaria prevention, the virtues of breastfeeding, malnutrition screening and vaccination.
"I get malaria a few times a year.
What if, on Wednesday, the Mail discovers that Ed Miliband becoming prime minister would actually be the worst thing since the invention of malaria?
Health programmes for diseases such as malaria and TB are in vogue, but investment in health workers remains insufficient to meet the needs of local populations.
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It should focus first on only three big killers of children in sub-Saharan Africa: diarrhoea, malaria and respiratory infections.
Resources: Senegal has had tremendous success using community case management to reduce child mortality from malaria, which has been a key to Senegal cutting child mortality by a larger portion than any other country in Africa over the past several years.
He works with the team developing GSK's malaria candidate vaccine.
Stefan Kappe, principal investigator, Seattle BioMed, Seattle, US, @SeattleBioMed Stefan studies how malaria parasites develop in mosquitoes and in the livers of mammals, and works on developing new drugs and vaccines.
