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Malaria, the 'King of Diseases', continues to haunt and taunt mankind. More than a century after identification of the causative parasites, and more than half a century after finding effective drugs and insecticides, the disease as old as humanity itself, affects more than 500 million and kills more than 3 million people every year. The dreaded disease is difficult to eradicate and its control is possible ONLY with coordinated efforts of the general public, healthcare personnel and government agencies. And with global warming threatening to increase mosquito density and the spread of other mosquito borne infections like Dengue and Chikungunya, time has come for all of us to wake up.

This web site provides comprehensive information on the history, aetiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, diagnosis, treatment, complications and control measures of malaria. It also showcases the malaria control efforts at Mangalore, South India.

Malaria: Modern Day Management
By B Srinivas Kakkilaya

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What's New
Whole artemisia plant more effective than extract? [See Full Text \| Report]
Malaria in India kills 20 times more than govt., estiamtes [See]
Finacial irregularities in malaria control efforts [See]
Chloroquine makes a comeback [AJTMH Full Text \| Report \| Report]
Artemisinin-resistant malaria spreading to Vietnam and Myanmar: WHO [WHO \| Report]
Success in malaria control in conflict riden Sri Lanka [Plos One \| Report]
P. vivax drives evoluton in Asia-Pacific [Plos Medicine \| Report]
Indoor DDT Spraying in S. Africa associated with high breast milk concentration, genital defects in boys [Env Pollution Abstract \| Conference Full Text \| Report]
Malaria increases renal failures in Jharkhand [Report]
Mechanism of sickle cell protection against malaria unvieled [See Abstract \| Report \| Report]
Four Strains of P. vivax Sequenced [Nature Genetics \| Report]
Are We Treating Malaria?
New 'International Travel and Health Bulletin 2012' from WHO and Fresh Malaria Risk Info for India [WHO Bulletin \| India Alert TOI]
One third of malaria drugs fake [Lancet Infect Dis\| Report]
New Synthetic Antimalarial Arterolane+Piperaquine Launched in India [Report \| Pharmacokinetics \| Trials 1, 2, 3 \| Licence]
Spread of artemisinin resistance worrying [Artemether resistance in Africa Malaria J Apr 27, 2012 \| Lancet Apr 5, 2012 \| Science Apr 6, 2012 \| Report \| Report \| Global Plan for Artemisinin Resistance Containment \| NEJM Sep 2011 \| NEJM Jul 2009 \| Nature Rev Microbiol Apr 2010]
Malaria deaths in 2010 double of World Malaria Report estimates [Lancet article \| Lancet Editorial \| Guardian Report \| The Hindu Report] Deaths 45 times higher in India [TOI \| IBN News] [Comments in Lancet, Aug 11, 2012 ]
Nearly 2 lakh malaria deaths in India, Lancet report [See Full Text \| Lancet Editorial \| Report \| WHO rebuttal]
Journal Watch [See] Updated Feb 7, 2013
Some Older News...[See]

World Malaria Reports :: WHO
2008	2009	2010	2011

Outbreak Alerts

Monsoon Brings Malaria

Journal Links
Defining and Defeating the Intolerable Burden of Malaria *Am J Trop Med Hyg* Dec.07.
*Nature*: Web Focus on Malaria
*Nature*: Plasmodium genomics Spl., Oct.'02
National Geographic Feature on Malaria: Jul '07
Malaria Journal
*Malaria Elimination: Lancet* Spl., Oct 29, '10**
malERA � agenda for malaria eradication [PLoS Collections]

Treatment Policy
New Treatment Guidelines: WHO
World Malaria Report 2011: WHO
National Drug Policy - Malaria: 2010
Malaria in Mangalore
Malaria Treatment in Mangalore
New Treatment Protocol (NVBDCP)
Chemoprophylaxis