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A malaria control officer from India recently told me (in Hindi):
Falciparum kills people, vivax kills the nation
It’s an old anecdote which mirrored the classic malaria scenario in the country. In 1970, Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite species associated with higher mortality, comprised only 14 percent of all cases. Still, the parasite was responsible for many deaths [...]

The latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine contains a large set of malaria articles  including results from the RTS,S vaccine phase 2 trials. RTS,S is the malaria vaccine furthest along in the development pipeline and is managed by a public-private partnership led by GlaxoSmithKline and the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (the early [...]

That’s the title of a just released supplement of the Malaria Journal (open access). We know we will need new tools to make malaria elimination feasible (previously discussed here). Largely reviews, the articles do not contain  groundbreaking ideas but are a good summary of opinions and issues surrounding topics ranging from malaria in pregnancy to [...]