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1/5/2005 This research paper found that papaya leaf extracts do appear to exhibit some degree of anti-malarial activity by inhibiting in vitro Plasmodium falciparum growth. 32 pages, tables
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1/1/1996 Jointly published by the World Health Organization and Canada's International Development Research Centre, Net Gain describes this important new weapon in the fight against malaria. It reviews and discusses the development of the treated mosquito net, focusing on the technology, its...
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While questions still remain about the dosage required in human beings, neem clearly has great potential in preventing malaria, a parasite that kills more than a million people per year. Several in vitro studies indicate significant protection, including one that concluded it was more effective...
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Abstract,Malaria Journal, 2008 Larval control of malaria vectors has been historically successful in reducing malaria transmission, but largely fell out of favour with the introduction of synthetic insecticides and bed nets. However, an integrated approach to malaria control, including larval...
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19/10/1999 Debido a la preocupación sobre variedades del parásito de malaria resistentes al medicamento, los pacientes con malaria debieran tratarse con una combinación de dos medicamentos.
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20/6/2000 Los mosquiteros son efectivos para proteger a las personas que duermen debajo de ellos siempre y cuando el material no tengaagujeros y la persona no esté durmiendo contra el mosquitero. Sin embargo, el mosquito continuará buscando hasta que encuentra un camino o una parte del cuerpo que esté...
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1/10/2002 The questions we asked in EDN 69 were: Do you drink the tea yourself or know people who do? How do you make the tea? How often do you drink it? Do you know of people who drink the tea regularly and still get malaria?
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20/4/2008 According to a New Scientist article in 2007, up to 52 per cent of anti-malarial tablets sold across the region including Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Burma and Thailand contain no artesunate (a drug made by slightly altering artemisinin so that it is soluble and can be given by injection as well as...
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20/4/2007 For several years, ECHO staff members have followed reports on the use of Artemisia annua to treat malaria. Though artemisia leaves have been used medicinally to reduce fever for 2000 years, we hesitated to write about it, because it is a temperate plant. But there is now a variety of artemisia...
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20/7/2003 En el artículo acerca del té de hoja de papaya que fue publicado en EDN Número 77, no mencionamos la posibilidad de que la ingestión en forma regular del té podría tener efectos colaterales (debido a que no habíamos oído de ninguno). Desde que publicamos ese artículo, nos hemos enterado de...
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