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More Tests, Fewer Cases: Tracking India’s Fight Against Malaria
15 Oct 2025 19:27 GMT
… and relied heavily on dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) spraying. Over time, policy … as insecticide resistance, irregular DDT supply, and a rural … (1953)
● National Malaria Eradication Programme (1958)
● Urban Malaria Scheme (1971)
● …
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Malaria-Transmitting Mosquito’s Genetic Diversity and Evolution Revealed
18 Sep 2025 19:59 GMT
… transfer of infectious diseases.
Malaria is typically transmitted to … Genomic diversity of the African malaria vector Anopheles funestus.”
The … Complex disappeared today, malaria would still rage through … resistance to the insecticide DDT. None of the historic …
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Local View: Collective courage from DDT's first warning needed again
03 Sep 2025 20:48 GMT
… s work, pesticides like DDT were viewed as a successful … and pest-borne disease like malaria. DDT was initially believed to have … to wildlife reproduction and DDT’s previously undocumented behavior … would cause failed nesting. DDT was suddenly no longer a …
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Tripura: Malaria Outbreak Grips Hill Tribal Areas of Teliamura Subdivision
09 Jul 2025 09:15 GMT
… have been identified as emerging malaria-prone zones.
Tragedy struck … Divisional Hospital on Tuesday with malaria. A high-level emergency … concern is the discontinuation of DDT spraying in the hill … four years, despite 85 DDT workers being on the rolls …
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First Amazon country declared free of malaria
01 Jul 2025 18:34 GMT
… release. “Furthermore, eliminating malaria will have positive effects … on malaria control in the 1950s using indoor DDT spraying … to undermine global progress against malaria,” Peter Sands, MPA, … the reintroduction of malaria.”
WHO’s malaria-free declaration is …
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WHO certifies Suriname malaria-free
01 Jul 2025 12:59 GMT
… with the pesticide DDT and antimalarial treatment. … community workers provide free malaria diagnosis, treatment, … malaria elimination, including through the National Malaria Elimination Taskforce, Malaria Programme, Malaria …
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Suriname certified malaria-free by WHO
30 Jun 2025 15:13 GMT
… at risk from malaria. Furthermore, eliminating malaria will have positive … indoor spraying with the pesticide DDT and antimalarial treatment. By … to malaria elimination, including through the National Malaria Elimination Taskforce, Malaria Program, Malaria …
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Sir Ronald Ross and the mosquito link: how one Nobel winning discovery changed the course of malaria control
16 Jun 2025 05:22 GMT
… strategies still central to malaria elimination efforts today
| … not known.
Understanding how malaria spreads: A scientific … microscopic organisms responsible for malaria. This observation provided the … later using insecticides like DDT.
Ross went on to …
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DDT's toxic legacy haunts Zambezi Valley
03 Jun 2025 13:51 GMT
… to use the pesticide Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), alarming signs of ecological and … for public health purposes, particularly malaria control, continues under strict regulation … livelihood and nutrition.
"DDT disrupts sex hormone function, which …
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US funding freeze halts malaria prevention and genomic research
02 Jun 2025 01:43 GMT
… promising new technologies to combat malaria.
But “without sustained funding, … US eradicated malaria in the 1950s through swamp drainage and DDT [dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane … genomic research in malaria control?
When I started, malaria research was like …