Malaria

Differences in epidemiological characteristics and antimalarial drug resistance marker prevalence in imported and locally acquired cases from two South African malaria-endemic districts targeting elimination, 2022–2024

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How do imported malaria cases influence transmission and antimalarial drug resistance in South Africa’s elimination districts? Malaria remains a major public health concern globally, despite being both preventable and curable. In 2024, an estimated 282 million malaria cases were reported worldwide, with Africa continuing to carry the overwhelming burden of disease transmission. South Africa, located […]

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Malaria vector surveillance in South Africa: 2023 update

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How do mosquito species and resistance trends impact malaria transmission? Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites transmitted to humans through the bites of infected Anopheles mosquitoes. In South Africa, malaria transmission is seasonal and occurs mainly in the Limpopo, Mpumalanga, and KwaZulu-Natal provinces.  Symptoms can range from fever, chills, and headaches to severe

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Malaria in Africa: why most countries haven’t beaten it yet

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Malaria remains one of the most devastating parasitic diseases affecting humans. In 2020 there were around 241 million cases and 672,000 malaria-related deaths. This is a sharp increase from 2019. One reason it’s so persistent is that the malaria parasite has a very complex life cycle. It involves many different developmental stages and multiple hosts

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Mosquitoes: there’s malaria, plus 5 other diseases they pass on to humans

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Most people instantly associate mosquitoes with malaria. But these tiny flying insects can transmit a number of other diseases too. Viruses transmitted by insects like mosquitoes are called arthropod-borne or arboviruses. Like malaria, these viruses are transmitted to vertebrate hosts through the bite of a female mosquito when she takes a blood meal to assist

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Mosquito species from Asia poses growing risk to Africa’s anti-malaria efforts

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The spread of the mosquito species Anopheles stephensi across Africa poses a significant problem to a continent already heavily burdened by malaria. Most – 90% – of the world’s malaria deaths are on the continent. Researchers from Djibouti reported the presence of An. stephensi in the Horn of Africa in 2012. Until then it had

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Half the world’s people could be at greater risk of malaria if control efforts do not improve

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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a devastating impact on international malaria control and elimination efforts. According to the latest World Malaria Report, there were an estimated 14 million more cases of malaria in 2020 compared to 2019. Even more concerning was the marked increase in malaria-related deaths. These were mainly in children under the

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Maintaining focus on administering effective malaria treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic

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It is essential that healthcare professionals consider both COVID- 19 and malaria when a patient who lives in or has recently travelled to a malaria area presents with acute febrile illness. Early diagnosis of malaria by either a rapid diagnostic test or microscopy enables prompt treatment with the effective antimalarial, artemether-lumefantrine, preventing progression to severe

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Implementing malaria control in South Africa, Eswatini and southern Mozambique during the COVID-19 pandemic

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The COVID-19 pandemic has strained healthcare delivery systems in a number of southern African countries. Despite this, it is imperative that malaria control and elimination activities continue, especially to reduce as far as possible the number and rate of hospitalisations caused by malaria. The implementation of enhanced malaria control/elimination activities in the context of COVID-19

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A case of odyssean malaria, City of Tshwane, Gauteng Province

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NICD was notified of a malaria case in Soshanguve, City of Tshwane, Gauteng Province. A team comprising members of the NICD Parasitology and Vector Control Reference Laboratories, District Health Services, Environmental Health and Communicable Disease Control programmes, conducted an investigation in the area on 4 December 2019. The patient, a 19-year-old pregnant woman, had not

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