How to Use malaria in a Sentence
malaria
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The world is at a defining moment in the fight against malaria.
—Peter Sands, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
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Most malaria deaths are in children under the age of 5.
—Brady Dennis, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
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Roughly 2,800 years ago, high in the Himalayas, a man died of malaria.
—Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2024
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As cholera, dengue, and malaria spread, that will only get worse.
—Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2019
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That has contributed to the rebound of malaria in many places.
—Byscience News Staff, science.org, 23 Mar. 2023
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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
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His six-year-old twins also fell ill with malaria this year.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 24 May 2024
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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
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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
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Researchers had been searching for a malaria vaccine since the late 1960s.
—Pratik Pawar, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2022
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But Nets, a malaria awareness and fundraising campaign by the UN.
—Amanda Tarlton, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2020
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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
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It’s because people used to plant tons of them in areas with malaria.
—Jonas Eika, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
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How lucky my father was to have survived a World War, combat, and malaria?
—BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2019
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In hunting for a weapon against malaria, Lawrence Wang found an antibody that’s now being put to the test.
—STAT, 14 Nov. 2022
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But getting to a malaria-free world will require more than promising tools.
—Apoorva Mandavilli Kang-Chun Cheng, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
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Already, a lack of vaccines has led to the resurgence of preventable diseases like malaria and measles.
—Ciara Nugent, Time, 20 Mar. 2020
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Traveling to a country with high rates of malaria can put you and others at risk.
—Steffini Stalos, Verywell Health, 18 Oct. 2024
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In other cases, malaria will erupt into the blood much faster.
—oregonlive, 25 Jan. 2020
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There are also vaccines on the horizon for diseases such as dengue and malaria.
—Laura Paddison, CNN, 29 June 2023
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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
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Margaret has had no side effects except a slight fever—and no malaria.
—Jop De Vrieze, Science | AAAS, 26 Nov. 2019
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China launched a program to identify new malaria drugs in the late 1960s.
—Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 29 June 2021
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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
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At the mission station and in their forest settlements, many grew sick and died from flu and malaria.
—New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
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With malaria Chloroquine works by interfering with the growth of the parasite in the cells.
—Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu, Quartz Africa, 21 Mar. 2020
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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
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The new vaccine, called Mosquirix, helps the immune system fight off a malaria pathogen common in Africa.
—Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 6 Oct. 2021
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Now, two are available, and in early 2024, the world’s first routine childhood immunization campaign against malaria began in Cameroon.
—Rob Reddick, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2024
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It was first used as a digestive aid and later became widely known for its effectiveness in treating malaria.
—Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 23 Dec. 2024
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