How to Use malaria in a Sentence

malaria

noun
  • The world is at a defining moment in the fight against malaria.
    Peter Sands, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Most malaria deaths are in children under the age of 5.
    Brady Dennis, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Roughly 2,800 years ago, high in the Himalayas, a man died of malaria.
    Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2024
  • That has contributed to the rebound of malaria in many places.
    Byscience News Staff, science.org, 23 Mar. 2023
  • That's how much malaria has been in the population of West Africa, it's been there that long.
    Abc News, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2022
  • His six-year-old twins also fell ill with malaria this year.
    Ari Daniel, NPR, 24 May 2024
  • Nine out of 10 malaria victims live in Africa, most of them children under the age of five.
    David A. Taylor, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2021
  • In Africa, climate change has led to more hunger, malaria, dengue fever and flooding, Mr. Taalas said.
    Jenny Gross, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Researchers had been searching for a malaria vaccine since the late 1960s.
    Pratik Pawar, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2022
  • But Nets, a malaria awareness and fundraising campaign by the UN.
    Amanda Tarlton, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The drug, first created in the 1940s, has been used to treat and prevent malaria, arthritis, and lupus.
    Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2020
  • It’s because people used to plant tons of them in areas with malaria.
    Jonas Eika, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
  • In hunting for a weapon against malaria, Lawrence Wang found an antibody that’s now being put to the test.
    STAT, 14 Nov. 2022
  • But getting to a malaria-free world will require more than promising tools.
    Apoorva Mandavilli Kang-Chun Cheng, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Already, a lack of vaccines has led to the resurgence of preventable diseases like malaria and measles.
    Ciara Nugent, Time, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Traveling to a country with high rates of malaria can put you and others at risk.
    Steffini Stalos, Verywell Health, 18 Oct. 2024
  • In other cases, malaria will erupt into the blood much faster.
    oregonlive, 25 Jan. 2020
  • There are also vaccines on the horizon for diseases such as dengue and malaria.
    Laura Paddison, CNN, 29 June 2023
  • But the vaccine was given at the start of the rainy season, which lasts less than half the year and is when almost all malaria cases occur.
    Bygretchen Vogel, science.org, 3 Nov. 2022
  • China launched a program to identify new malaria drugs in the late 1960s.
    Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 29 June 2021
  • The World Health Organization says that children under the age of 5 make up 80% of the malaria deaths in the region.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 22 July 2024
  • At the mission station and in their forest settlements, many grew sick and died from flu and malaria.
    New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
  • With malaria Chloroquine works by interfering with the growth of the parasite in the cells.
    Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu, Quartz Africa, 21 Mar. 2020
  • The reasoning is that malaria can be life-threatening and is therefore worth the risk of side effects.
    Joe Graedon and Teresa Graedon, oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The new vaccine, called Mosquirix, helps the immune system fight off a malaria pathogen common in Africa.
    Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Quinine is, after all, a medicine used to treat malaria, according to the Mayo Clinic.
    Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 20 July 2022
  • Recall that there are not one but two new vaccines available for malaria.
    Dylan Matthews, Vox, 6 July 2024
  • At the time, Langford moved to the area with his family to regain his health after battling malaria.
    Ariana Garcia, Chron, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The shoreline became shallow and stagnant, and fears of malaria and other diseases were the death knell of the once-popular resort.
    James Dziezynski, Outside Online, 10 Nov. 2024
  • The area has high levels of malnutrition and low vaccination coverage, leaving children vulnerable to a range of diseases, including malaria, pneumonia and measles, Tedros added.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN, 10 Dec. 2024

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