malaria

The global fight against malaria took a stride forward as Cameroon started the world's first routine vaccine programme.

Yanomami people are dying from flu, malaria and malnutrition brought into the Amazon rainforest reservation by resurgent illegal miners.

Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are killed annually by malaria and other diseases spread through the bite of mosquitoes.

Here's how climate change is harming people's health across the world today, and what countries might expect in the future.

A complex mix of global warming, changes in land use and more movement of people and goods are contributing to the spread of illnesses.

About 20,000 wildcat miners on the Yanomami reservation in northern Brazil have brought malaria and severe food shortages.

The emergency ward at the main government hospital in Sehwan, a small town in southern Pakistan, is overwhelmed.

Gates said it was a "paradox" that funding for tackling diseases like malaria and AIDS could actually drop this year.

The international research team suggested the vaccine, developed by Britain's Oxford University, could represent a turning point in the fight against the mosquito-borne parasitic disease.

The landmark award, valued at up to US$170 million, will lead to 18 million doses of the RTS,S vaccine available over the next three years.

Most of the malaria cases were brought in from Africa, so health screening is vital to detect it from an early stage, Dr Noor Hisham said.

The Health Ministry (MOH) has confirmed that seven deaths involving malaria infection were detected from Jan 2 to July 9 this year.

Children in Africa account for the vast majority of the roughly 600,000 global malaria deaths every year.

More than 100,000 children in malaria-endemic western Kenya have received the new vaccine against the disease.

The death toll means infections by bacteria resistant to antibiotics are directly responsible for more deaths than HIV/AIDS or malaria.

The coronation of Britain's King Charles cost taxpayers GBP72 million (US$90 million), official accounts have revealed.

A married couple and a man were charged in the Magistrate's Court here today with trafficking 51.974 kilogrammes of Methamphetamine.

The police may seek new testimony from existing witnesses for additional insights into the investigation of Teoh Beng Hock's death.

Thailand's Constitutional Court rejects a petition seeking to stop Thaksin Shinawatra from interfering in the running the Pheu Thai party.

The State Assemblyman for Sungai Bakap, Abidin Ismail, was sworn in today at the State Assembly building, Lebuh Light.

A cadet officer at UPNM pleaded not guilty to a charge of injuring his junior by stomping on the victim's stomach with spike boots.

The indictment was unsealed on Nov. 20, prompting a $27 billion plunge in Adani Group companies' market value.

Several countries have already vowed to curb social media use by children through legislation, but Australia's policy could become one of the most stringent.

Bondi was the top law enforcement officer of the country's third most populous state from 2011 to 2019, and served on Trump's Opioid and Drug Abuse Commission during his first administration.

At 8 am, the local currency climbed to 4.4600/4700 against the greenback.