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WHO trial to study potential of 3 anti-malarial drugs against Covid
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced a clinical trial to study three antimalarial and anti-inflammatory drugs as potential treatments for...
Higher mosquito blood meals increase malaria transmission
Given that mosquitoes feed on blood multiple times in natural settings, the results published in the journal PLOS Pathogens suggest that malaria...
Rare genus of malaria detected in Kerala
Kerala Health Minister K.K. Shailaja has informed that a rare genus of malaria, Plasmodium Ovale, has been detected in the state.
Malaria cases rising in N Chennai, warn govt doctors
Dengue cases are comparatively less in the city this year, but government hospitals are witnessing an increase in malaria cases in the recent past.
Surge in fever cases among kids post rain
Even as the battle against the pandemic is far from over, doctors at the children’s hospital in Chennai are witnessing a spike in fever cases,...
COVID-19: Tally down, but triage ward cases spike
With the State’s daily COVID-19 tally having come down in the last few days, suspected cases and fever cases at the triage wards (where suspected...
As season commences, State to focus on keeping chikungunya numbers
The number of cases of vector-borne diseases like dengue, malaria and encephalitis has gone down in the State this year. However, 189 cases of...
Vector-borne diseases in Tamil Nadu dip this year
With the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping through the State, the number of malaria, dengue and swine flu cases, incidentally, have dwindled sharply this...