How to Use malaria in a Sentence
malaria
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Does that mean there are forms of malaria that can’t be cured?
—Washington Post, 30 July 2019
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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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The idea that Bill Gates is the one guy who should be out there curing malaria is ludicrous to me.
—Dylan Matthews, Vox, 9 July 2019
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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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About 2,000 cases of malaria are observed in the United States each year.
—Haley Weiss, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2019
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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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What about everything that Bill Gates has done on malaria?
—Dylan Matthews, Vox, 9 July 2019
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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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Dorrigo’s involvement with the book launch stirs up vivid memories of his time in the Thai jungle, lobbying in vain with the Japanese command to improve conditions for the men, many of them suffering from dysentery, malnutrition and malaria.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2025
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Read: Space billionaires, please read the room Some billionaires have maintained the notion of magnificence by pouring money into solutions to social problems, such as treatments for malaria or children’s hospitals.
—Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
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