malaria English

Meaning malaria meaning

What does malaria mean?

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malaria Noun

— Malaria is a sickness found mostly in Africa and is caused by mosquitoes The family was saved from getting malaria because of mosquito nets given to them

malaria

— noun an infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever

Synonyms malaria synonyms

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malaria English » English

fever

ague

cold

chill

swamp fever

wart

shudder

quartan

plump

pestilential pathogen

paludism

mosquito fever

malarial fever

malaria tropical disease

heat

have fever

fever and chills

emaciated

cough

chills and fever

Topics malaria topics

What do people use malaria to talk about?

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Disease

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  allergy allergic amoeba appendicitis cholera colic colicky colitis cyst diabetes diabetic diphtheria distemper dropsy dysentery elephantiasis encephalitis fibrosis fistula flux hypertension gallstone goiter heatstroke hernia herpes zoster hemophilia hemorrhoid hives hookworm kidney stone lockjaw lumbago malaria meningitis mononucleosis mumps phlebitis piles plague polio poliomyelitis psoriasis rabid rabies rubella sclerosis sunstroke tetanus typhoid typhus yellow fever airsick carsick seasick

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Malaria is carried by mosquitoes.

Malaria is a disease that mosquitoes carry.

He contracted malaria while living in the jungle.

They're suffering from malaria.

There was no malaria vaccination in 2011, either.

Tom caught malaria while he was travelling in Africa.

Malaria kills more than 400,000 people every year.

Hunger kills more people every year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

Mosquitoes carry malaria.

The onset of malaria is marked by nausea, vomiting, fever, chills, and headache.

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This leads to malaria brought by anophelese mosquitos.

Almost everyone in Las Hurdes has malaria.

It kinda keeps my mind off the malaria germs.

Solid malaria.

Malaria, huh?

A touch of malaria.

Malaria, my ass!

I think you might have malaria, Andy.

No, I'd know malaria.

The heat should be great for your malaria.

I thought so. It's his malaria.

They died of malaria, dysentery, beri-beri, gangrene.

We found traces of malaria in Gauthier's blood.

Globe-trotter, aviator. malaria.

It's malaria.

He's been taking atabrine, a cure for malaria.

A little malaria.

Oh, malaria.

MAC: No, no, it's only malaria.

Our flight surgeon says mosquitoes have malaria, and they keep flying.

Silly disease, malaria.

It's either that or a bad go of malaria.

Half the gang's down with malaria and dysentery.

This malaria got me even here.

I prefer to die of malaria.

On second thought, perhaps a little. to check my malaria.

In summer the water courses run almost dry. This leads to malaria brought by anophelese mosquitos.

It's just a little fit of malaria.

He's all I brought back from the colonies. Him and malaria.

No, it's malaria.

Yes, and, um, they tell me it prevents malaria.

So you stayed there all night fighting malaria?

I have over 100o fever. Malaria, the runs, what else, I don't know.

News and current affairs

How many lives can we spare from heat, starvation, or malaria?

While 3,000 innocent people died in the US on September 11, 2001, in Africa 8,000 innocent children die every day from malaria.

Yet malaria is preventable and treatable.

The US spends more on Iraq each day than it does on Africa's malaria in a year.

Diseases are rampant, including an AIDs epidemic that killed around 2 million people in Africa last year, and malaria, which took more than 1 million lives.

Malaria was surging, owing to the parasite's growing resistance to the standard medicine at the time.

Nigeria hosted two landmark summits, on malaria in 2000 and on AIDS in 2001, which were a crucial spur to action.

At the second of these summits, then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for the creation of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria.

The United States also took action, adopting two major programs, one to fight AIDS and the other to fight malaria.

The expanded funding allowed major campaigns against AIDS, TB, and malaria; a major scaling up of safe childbirth; and increased vaccine coverage, including the near-eradication of polio.

Malaria deaths in children in Africa were cut from a peak of around one million in 2004 to around 700,000 by 2010, and, worldwide, deaths of pregnant women declined by almost half between 1990 and 2010, from an estimated 543,000 to 287,000.

For every major problem - hunger, illiteracy, malnutrition, malaria, AIDS, drought, and so forth - there are practical solutions that are proven and affordable.

Likewise, global warming will probably slightly increase malaria, but CO2 reductions will be far less effective at fighting this disease than mosquito nets and medication, which can cheaply save 850,000 lives every year.

By contrast, the expensive Kyoto Protocol will prevent just 1,400 deaths from malaria each year.

Malaria afflicts 300 million people and is the world's biggest killer of children.

Similar studies have taught us that sensitivity to alcohol consumption and resistance to diseases like malaria and leprosy also evolved within the last several thousand years.

They heard from health experts who said that communicable diseases were rampant and that mosquito nets would be a great way to combat malaria.

Changing weather patterns are already affecting the lives of millions of Africans by reducing food security, facilitating the spread of diseases like malaria, and prompting mass migration.

The challenges of feeding the world, keeping it safe from epidemic diseases such as malaria and AIDS, and combining economic progress with local and global environmental safety are the defining challenges of our time.

His campaign has already helped to reduce the incidence of malaria.

No lone African country, for example, can overcome the crushing burden of malaria, a disease that claims perhaps 1million lives per year, and which causes around 800 million episodes of illness per year.

All of the IMF-World Bank missions in the world are not going to overcome the problems of malaria, or drug-resistant tuberculosis, or even low agricultural productivity in the arid regions of Africa.

It's now time that the WHO lead a similar effort on malaria, tuberculosis, AIDs, and other afflictions of the developing and developed world.