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Mobile phone records can help predict spread of malaria

How can you predict the spread of malaria in a region like Zanzibar, where few records are available showing how people travel from place to place? US researchers have found a novel answer to that question: How about by studying mobile phone records instead? As part of a study commissioned

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World Malaria Day kicks off disease-fighting campaign

Climate change and growing resistance to traditional drugs pose increased challenges to the effort to wipe out malaria, but researchers and civil society organisations around the world aren’t giving up the fight. Saturday — 25 April — marks World Malaria Day 2009. Championed by the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership, the