Resurgence of Malaria in Quetta

Seroprevalence of Pediatric Malaria in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan

BACKGROUND Malaria is one of the most devastating protozoal diseases in under developing countries like Pakistan where health facilities are scarce. It is the second most frequently reported disease with 4.5 million suspected cases in Pakistan. The current study was designed to determine the incidence of pediatric malaria in Quetta, Balochistan. METHODS The study was conducted at Children Hos...

Malaria resurgence in the East African highlands: temperature trends revisited.

The incidence of malaria in the East African highlands has increased since the end of the 1970s. The role of climate change in the exacerbation of the disease has been controversial, and the specific influence of rising temperature (warming) has been highly debated following a previous study reporting no evidence to support a trend in temperature. We revisit this result using the same temperatu...

Indian Ocean Dipole drives malaria resurgence in East African highlands

Malaria resurgence in African highlands in the 1990s has raised questions about the underlying drivers of the increase in disease incidence including the role of El-Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). However, climatic anomalies other than the ENSO are clearly associated with malaria outbreaks in the highlands. Here we show that the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), a coupled ocean-atmosphere interactio...

A Study of Prevalence of Malaria Infection in Urban Areas of District Quetta, Pakistan

This paper reports the prevalence of malarial parasites in the human population of urban areas of Quetta District. Plasmodium falciparum was observed to be with a higher incidence (16.31%) in the age group of 21 years and above. Mosquitoes of the genus Culex was found to be more prevalent (96%), genus Anopheles was observed to be 0.86% and genus Aedes was found to be less

The resurgence of Malaria and the role of the Medicines for Malaria Venture