Malaria in sentence

933 examples of Malaria in a sentence

Tell me, I know you mentioned this a little bit, but how would things actually change if there were a malaria vaccine?

It's estimated that malaria costs Africa 12 billion US dollars a year.

Global citizens will partner with the world's leading NGOs to end diseases like polio and malaria.

We cannot make the mistakes we've made with malaria and HIV.

20 years ago, a biologist named Anthony James got obsessed with the idea of making mosquitos that didn't transmit malaria.

James managed it, finally, just a few years ago, by adding some genes that make it impossible for the malaria parasite to survive inside the mosquito.

If you put an anti-malarial gene drive in just 1 percent of Anopheles mosquitoes, the species that transmits malaria, researchers estimate that it would spread to the entire population in a year.

So in a year, you could virtually eliminate malaria.

In practice, we're still a few years out from being able to do that, but still, a 1,000 children a day die of malaria.

Gene drives have risks, and those need to be discussed, but malaria exists now and kills 1,000 people a day.

And why not eradicate malaria?

And I want to give you just one more example, because we've talked a little bit about malaria.

Now, malaria's transmitted by a mosquito, and normally if you're infected with malaria, and you're feeling sick, it makes it even easier for the mosquito to bite you.

In the case of malaria, what we'd like to do is mosquito-proof houses.

And so what you can see is that just the mosquito-proofed housing, and nothing else, caused the eradication of malaria.

And this was, incidentally, published in 1949, in the leading textbook of malaria, called "Boyd's Malariology."

But almost no malaria experts even know it exists.

This is important, because it tells us that if you have moderate biting densities, you can eradicate malaria by mosquito proofing houses.

Like, you know, just as you get into the malaria zone, sub-Saharan Africa.

And that can tell you things like where malaria might spread, and you can make predictions with it.

Depression has actually now surpassed HIV/AIDS, malaria, diabetes and war as the leading cause of disability worldwide.

See, I had seen the impact of the high prevalence of diseases like malaria, and I wanted to make medicines that would cure the sick.

Some of us do survive malaria; we do survive AIDS.

I'm saying we need more than just, you know, vaccination, malaria, AIDS, because I want to be treated in a proper hospital if something happens to me out there.

OK, I know it's not AIDS, I know it's not malaria, but we still need this stuff.

Now, it's not nuclear arms, it's not immigration, and it's not malaria.

We are living in a world that is tantalizingly close to ensuring that no one need die of hunger or malaria or diarrhea.

We can cure people of various diseases, such as malaria and hepatitis C, so why can't we cure HIV?

Imagine you have a two-year-old who wakes up one morning with a fever, and you realize she could have malaria, and you know the only way to get her the medicine she needs would be to take her to the riverbed, get in a canoe, paddle to the other side and then walk for up to two days through the forest just to reach the nearest clinic.

We equipped her with modern medical technology, like this $1 malaria rapid test, and put it in a backpack full of medicines like this to treat infections like pneumonia, and crucially, a smartphone, to help her track and report on epidemics.

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