Malaria can be.

Mosquitoes carry malaria.

Yet malaria is preventable and treatable.

Tom caught malaria while he was travelling in Africa.

Untimely rain will further add to the menace of dengue, malaria mosquitoes growth.

Malaria causes poverty, while poverty causes malaria far more than other diseases.

Three quarters of them could have survived diarrhea or malaria if they had been properly nourished.

Because if you actually look through your fingernails, you can see blood vessels, and once you see blood vessels, we think we can see the malaria.

The US spends more on Iraq each day than it does on Africa's malaria in a year.

The effect on foreign direct investment stands out as a crucial factor linking poverty and malaria.

According to the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, 2,000 children die of the disease each day.

In 2006, after roughly 50 million preventable deaths, the United Nations World Health Organization reversed course and endorsed the use of DDT to kill and repel Anopheles mosquitoes.

Arata Kochi, the WHO official in charge of malaria said, We must take a position based on the science and the data.

Malaria can be controlled through newly designed long lasting mosquito nets and a new generation of effective medicines. Other tropical diseases also can be controlled, and practical technologies for safe drinking water can dramatically reduce diarrheal diseases.

Thus, for just 0.50 per year, each child can be protected by a bed net. And a 1 medical treatment can cure malaria if the child gets infected despite the bed net.

And a 1 medical treatment can cure malaria if the child gets infected despite the bed net.

Malaria can be controlled through newly designed long lasting mosquito nets and a new generation of effective medicines.

GENEVA Ask most people to name the two biggest causes of death among children, and they will most likely say malaria and HIV.

Malaria can be prevented to a significant extent, and can be treated with nearly 100 success, through available low cost technologies.

On disease, malaria could be controlled by 2008 using proven, low cost methods. But, again, Africa cannot afford them.

On disease, malaria could be controlled by 2008 using proven, low cost methods.

Yet even in Africa, Malaria is largely preventable and completely treatable at low cost.

The immature malaria parasite takes 26 days to develop fully at 68 degrees F, but only 13 days at 77 degrees F. The Anopheles mosquitoes that spread malaria live only several weeks, so warmer temperatures enable more parasites to mature in time for the mosquitoes to transfer the infection.

SAN FRANCISCO Last fall, Bill and Melinda Gates sent shock waves through the global health community when they announced the audacious goal of eradicating human malaria from the face of the planet.

Cameroonian blogger Edouard Tamba posted on twitter about the first online mapping tool to tool to track insecticide resistance in mosquitoes that cause malaria IR Mapper.

As they successfully eliminate malaria, they will provide a new malaria free anchor that will enable their neighbors, which have been pursuing aggressive control measures in the interim, to embark on their own eradication campaigns.

Across the globe, the Southern Africa Development Community has set a goal of eliminating malaria from its four southernmost members Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland by 2015.

Two students at the International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, invented a soap made from locally sourced herbs and natural ingredients that repels mosquitoes carrying deadly diseases such as malaria.

Dr. Asterios Gavotsis, the mayor of Oreokastro, supports this position, staking his medical reputation on claims that refugee children carry dangerous and communicable diseases, such as hepatitis and malaria.

But there is also a growing realization that malaria is a disaster that must be addressed. US President George W. Bush has launched an important new initiative to help 15 African countries to control malaria, and hosted an unprecedented White House summit in December to rally private sector support.

US President George W. Bush has launched an important new initiative to help 15 African countries to control malaria, and hosted an unprecedented White House summit in December to rally private sector support.

If we spend vast amounts of money on carbon cuts in the mistaken belief that we are stopping malaria and reducing malnutrition, we are less likely to put aside money for the direct policies that would help today.