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New Saliva Diagnostic Test Helps Eliminate Malaria by docadams: 5:39am On Jan 05, 2019 |
JANUARY 5, 20194:49 A world first diagnostic saliva test for malaria is on the horizon. The saliva-based diagnostic tool, to be marketed by ERADA as a Saliva-based Malaria Asymptomatic and Asexual Rapid Test (SMAART) for subclinical infection, is set to transform malaria detection worldwide. Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/01/new-saliva-diagnostic-test-helps-eliminate-malaria/ |
Re: New Saliva Diagnostic Test Helps Eliminate Malaria by docadams: 5:55am On Jan 05, 2019 |
Malaria Fact Sheet The malaria parasite was first discovered by a French army surgeon stationed in Algeria in 1880 Malaria is an endemic disease affecting about, with half the world population at risk chiefly in large areas of Africa and South Asia and parts of Central and South America, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Ocean. However, only fifteen countries carry 80% of the burden. Fourteen of these are in tropical Africa. . According to the latest World malaria report, released in November 2018, there were 219 million cases of malaria in 2017, up from 217 million cases in 2016. The estimated number of malaria deaths stood at 435 000 in 2017. Malaria is preventable and treatable. The majority of these new cases and 90% of the resulting deaths occur in Africa. Uganda, for example, reported the highest number of new infections with 10.3 million. This figure is followed by Ghana with 8.8 million and another 6.3 million in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Malaria is mos prevalent in Africa because of the prevalence of the most dangerous parasite Plasmodium falciparum as well as the prevalence of the most effective vector, the Anopheles gambiae mosquito. ( double wahala) The six highest burden countries in the WHO African region (in order of estimated number of cases) are: Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, United Republic of Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique and Cote d’Ivoire. These six countries account for an estimated 103 million (or 47%) of malaria cases. In South East Asia, the second most affected region in the world, India has the highest malaria burden (with an estimated 24 million cases per year), followed by Indonesia and Myanmar. Antimalarial drug resistance is a major concern for the global effort to control malaria. P. falciparum resistance to artemisinins has been detected but the ACTs still remain highly effective in almost all settings, so long as the partner drug in the combination is locally effective. |
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