Researchers from the UK and experts from the NGO Medical Detection Dogs in Gambia conducted the experiment, which consisted of training dogs for months to stop them when they smelled a contaminated sock. Their findings were presented Monday at the American Society of Tropical Medicine annual conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. The stockings were [...]
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A new study has revealed that Eve, a robot with artificial intelligence (AI), developed by a British university, he became a "great hero" after helping scientists find a killer against malaria in one of the ingredients of a common toothpaste. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in Great Britain used Eve [...]
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The Italian malaria specialists informed the Italian ministers of Health and of the University and Research on the occasion of the Conference on Health organized by the Italian Presidency of the G7. Italian scholars are sounding the alarm on the global impact of malaria because Italy activates public funding to support Italian research against this devastating disease. Ten years […]
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Federico Gelli, head of the health department of the Democratic Party, underlines: "Instrumentalizing the death of the 4-year-old girl as the center-right is doing, saying it is all the fault of the migrants, is an absolute blunder." Gelli, engaged in Florence at the Unity party which this year hosts the national thematic focus on the health sector, specified: "First of all we start from a [...]
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Two children with malaria, then fortunately healed and discharged, were hospitalized in our health facility, in a different ward, in the same days when little Sofia was in this hospital. Since the transmission of malaria does not occur by air or by contact, we are investigating the hypothesis, albeit very rare, that the children had [...]
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If it were confirmed that the malaria case of the child who died in Brescia is indigenous and transmitted by mosquitoes, it would be the first for over thirty years. This is confirmed by Giampiero Carosi, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Brescia, according to whom the most likely hypothesis is that a mosquito has bitten someone infected, perhaps after a trip, and then transmitted the [...]
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