January 11, 2013 | NEW DELHI: India will soon revise its malaria
mortality figures, with the new estimates expected to be at
least 20 times more than what the health ministry portrays at
present. A 16-member committee of the Indian Council of Medical
Research, headed by its former director general Dr Padam Singh
Pradhan, has found that the actual number of malaria deaths in
India on an average would be around 40,297 â€" around 40 times
higher than present estimates. In a first such admission,
India's National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP)
December 24, 2007 | An effective new weapon to fight the
transmission of malaria might be lying there some leagues under
the sea. A study suggests that sea cucumbers could provide a
potential new weapon to block transmission of the malaria
parasite. The slug-like creature produces a protein, lectin,
which impairs development of the parasites. An international
team genetically engineered mosquitoes ? which carry the malaria
parasite ? to produce the same pro