2011年1月28日 | EN | ES Aggressively scaling up control will not be
enough to eradicate the disease, the report said Flickr/US Army
Africa [MEXICO CITY] A suite of new tools against malaria will
be needed to fulfil the ambitious new goal of total
eradications, according to a report by 250 scientists published
this week (25 January). New drugs, vaccines and mosquito control
methods, aided by new diagnostic and surveillance tools — all
aimed at interrupting transmission of the parasite rather than
humbler goals relating to control of the disease — will all be
needed, said the report, published as 12 scientific papers in
PLoS Medicine. Two years in the making, the Malaria Eradication
Research Agenda (malERA) report seeks to lay out a "true
paradigm shift" of an agenda. "The current expert view suggests
that, by aggressively scaling up control with currently
available tools and strategies, much greater gains could be
achieved against malaria, including elimination from a number of
countries and regions; however, eve