Kevin-Prince Boateng

When I played for Ghana, I learned how to fight malaria. Simple vaccines are not enough. You also have to dry out infected areas where the carriers proliferate. I think that racism and malaria have a lot in common.

German Athlete

Paul Wolfowitz

It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted.

American Public Servant

Bill Gates

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

American Businessman

Peter Agre

One of my motivations to become a blood specialist was to study malaria in red blood cells. But in science, you discover something and you want to go this way, but your work goes that way.

American Scientist

Tedros Adhanom

I speak often about my personal experiences with malaria in the field as a young public health officer because it had such a profound impact on my life and my work.

Ethiopian Politician

Uzodinma Iweala

In terms of medicine, I've generally been pretty interested in public health issues as they relate to sub-Saharan Africa on a broad scale - HIV/AIDS, malaria etc.

American Author

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.

Nigerian Economist

Tu Youyou

Malaria has long been a devastating and life-threatening global epidemic disease in human history.

Chinese Scientist

Israel Adesanya

Nigerian Athlete

Gene Mauch

American Athlete

Understand that 'malaria' refers to a disease transmitted specifically by mosquitoes, not other insects or means.

Disease Transmission

'Malaria' often appears in discussions about travel, health advice, and regions where mosquito-borne diseases are common.

Preventive Measures

'Malaria' is associated with tropical and subtropical regions where the climate supports mosquito populations.

Geographical Context

 somebody mobile in Africa let's say oh yeah yeah subsistence farmers can text and find out crop prices or they'll say yes I saw cell phones they're reporting malaria outbreaks in there and they're doing this kind of thing and all of that's true but it clouds your mind if that's your if that's your model for thinking about mobile in Africa you're missing something really important

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 also make them more resistant to malaria. And if a child inherits a copy of the mutation from only one parent, there will be just enough abnormal hemoglobin to make life difficult for the malaria parasite, while most of their red blood cells retain their normal shape and function. In regions rife with this parasite,

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 So I'd like to show you the top four priorities which should be at least the first ones that we deal with when we talk about how we should deal with the problems in the world. The fourth best problem is malaria -- dealing with malaria. The incidence of malaria is about a couple of people get infected every year.

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 The malaria parasite, on the other hand, blocks an enzyme that helps the mosquitoes feed, forcing them to bite over and over and over again. The rabies virus may cause that snarling, slobbering behavior by putting the immune system into overdrive. But whatever the method, when you think about how effectively

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 Without them, plants would lose a pollinator. But some scientists say that mosquitos aren't actually all that important. If we got rid of them, they argue, another species would simply take their place and we'd probably have far fewer deaths from malaria. The problem is that nobody knows what would happen

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 in the highest elevations. Neither mosquitoes nor the bacteria that causes avian malaria like cold temperatures. What we have seen and what the climate change models have predicted was that as the climate warmed, those warmer temperatures would just keep rising up and up and up the mountain.

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 And there's a whole range of compounds that they do use. And this was not going to be an easy task. And therefore we set up various experiments. Why did we set up these experiments? Because half the world's population runs the risk of contracting a killer disease like malaria

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 of this research is combating malaria a disease spread through tropical regions of the world by mosquitoes nearly a million people die of the disease each year intellectual Ventures says their involvement began with a challenge from

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 vast majority of those deaths diarrhea pneumonia and malaria and so that brings us to the the first problem that all all raised this morning which is how do we stop a disease a deadly disease that's

Mosquitos, malaria and...

 that account for the vast majority of those diarrhea, pneumonia and malaria. So that brings us to the first problem that I'll raise this morning,

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