The government is worried that malaria might spread among the Indian troops deployed along the India-Bhutan border. It has started providing soldiers with insecticide-treated mosquito nets and mosquito repellents. During the past five years, at least 50 army and paramilitary troopers have died of malaria in Assam. Mosquitoes have also affected militants, forcing them from their hide-outs. A retired chief engineer of the state's public works department, who was kidnapped by the United Liberation Force of Asom, died of malaria last week.

green mussels (Perna viridis), found commonly in the Goa seawater, can yield malaria drugs, say scientists.

Using yeast to produce a cure

Meteorology can predict incidence five months in advance

Fresh WHO guidelines for malaria

The focus in this paper is to understand the likely influence of climate change on vector production and malaria transmission in India.

Universal vaccination became part of government policy in 1978. A quarter of a century since, progress has been fitful. In some parts of the country the south especially progress has been impressive, but in two of the most populous states Bihar and

Emerging scenarios, new dilemmas

Can render ineffective the only antimalarial medicine against Plasmodium falci

A degraded environment brings with it a set of health problems - some new and some, which have posed a challenge over the years. Presenting Body Burden, a compilation of reports from Down to Earth on the health impacts of environment pollution in India.

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