Tag: #Malaria
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Ghana approves Oxford malaria vaccine
In a breakthrough move, Ghana becomes the first country to approve the Oxford malaria vaccine, touted to be “highly effective”, the R21 vaccine is cleared in West Africa as funding concerns remain. Ghana is the first country to approve the malaria vaccine developed at UK’s prestigious Oxford University. The R21/Matrix-M vaccine has been cleared for…
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After malaria and covid, British man survives cobra bite in India
New Delhi, Nov 21 (AFP/APP):A British charity worker who survived coronavirus, dengue and malaria was recovering after a potentially deadly snake bite in western India’s Rajasthan state. Ian Jones was bitten by an Indian cobra in rural Jodhpur district of the desert state and admitted to hospital in Jodhpur city, about 350 kilometres (220 miles)…
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UK pays £20m for Donald Trump’s malaria drug ‘Covid cure’
(Telegraph UK)— The UK government spent £20 million buying stocks of drugs trumpeted by Donald Trump as potential cures for Covid-19 in recent weeks. The US President has championed a number of antiviral medicines as potential corona virus treatments including hydroxychloroquine which he revealed he has started taking despite concerns about dangerous side-effects. The US president said he…
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Another Deadly Disease After COVID-19: WHO
World Health Organization has warned the world of another deadly disease after the COVID-19. According to Baaghi TV, another disease and epidemic will engulf the world after the coronavirus, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the death toll from Malaria in Africa is double than that from coronavirus. According to the WHO, mosquito…
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US regulator approves limited use of malaria drugs for virus
Washington, March 30 (AFP/APP): A limited emergency-use authorization for two antimalarial drugs touted as game-changers by President Donald Trump has been issued by the US Food and Drug Administration to treat coronavirus patients. In a statement published Sunday, the US Department of Health and Human Services detailed recent donations of medicine to a national stockpile…
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Why is Pakistan safer from the coronavirus than the US and Europe?
Lahore, 27th March: The contagious disease, coronavirus is widely spreading in the world with a devastating outcome in Europe and the US after China, where it erupted in Wuhan in Dec 2019. According to the reports of Baaghi TV, it has been observed that the intensity of the coronavirus is not so severe in India,…
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US fast-tracking antimalarials to treat coronavirus
Washington, March 19 (AFP/APP): The US is fast-tracking antimalarial drugs for use as a treatment against the new coronavirus, President Donald Trump said Thursday, following encouraging early results in France and China. Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have not been given a formal green light in the US to fight the pandemic, but the Food and Drug…
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UN health agency calls for more funding to protect women, children from malaria
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 05 (APP):Despite exceptional headway globally in fighting malaria in the last decade, the progress has slowed in recent years and critical targets will likely be missed, according to a report released by the World Health Organization (WHO), a UN agency, on Wednesday. “We’re seeing encouraging signs, but the burden of suffering and…
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Rural population of federal capital vulnerable to malaria risk: Health experts
ISLAMABAD, Oct 15 (APP):Health experts on Tuesday said that large population of rural areas of federal capital are vulnerable to the malaria risk and advised them to take special preventive measures to prevent from the disease. According to them, authorities concerned should ensure effective surveillance to prevent from increasing malaria cases in the federal capital…
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NASA pioneers malaria-predicting tech in Myanmar
Yangon, Sept 10 (AFP/APP):NASA is developing a new technique to forecast malaria outbreaks in Myanmar from space, as the emergence of new drug-resistant strains in Southeast Asia threatens efforts to wipe out the deadly disease globally. The goal of worldwide malaria eradication within a generation, by 2050, is “bold but attainable”, a report released this…