A new malaria control strategy launched in April has started to bear fruits as health officials report to have detected at ...

Rwanda’s strides in the containing the latest surge of malaria cases as reported by Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC) is commendable. The recent report highlighting that the country’s new malaria control ...

Red Blood Cell Infected with Malaria Parasites Colorized scanning electron micrograph of red blood cell infected with malaria parasites (blue). The small bumps on the infected cell show how the ...

Aimable Mbituyumuremyi, head of the Malaria Division at RBC, said the shift to new drugs comes after the previously used medication showed reduced effectiveness due to the development of drug ...

Study: Efficient deep learning-based approach for malaria detection using red blood cell smears.Image Credit: cones/Shutterstock.com. Background. The World Health Organization report from 2015 ...

What is the relationship between sickle cell disease and malaria? Read on to learn more about the two conditions and how a certain type of SCD may offer protection against malaria.

Data from RBC indicates that malaria-related deaths have declined to 51 cases from 663 in 2016. In 2016, patients with severe malaria were 17,941 but that number went down to 1,316 in 2022-2023.

Over time, some RBC conditions have evolved to protect against malaria. Sickle cell trait (SCT) is one such condition. It arises from a gene mutation for hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying component ...

What are red blood cell disorders? Read on to learn more about these conditions, ... Malaria may lead to severe sickness, including anemia, as the parasite infects and destroys RBCs.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A cancer drug repurposed to treat malaria has been shown to be nearly 100% effective in helping defeat the disease in just three days, according to the results of a Phase 2 ...

Mosquitoes are the world's deadliest animals (after humans) and they transmit malaria, which kills about 400,000 people every year. Malaria is caused by a parasite with a complex life cycle.