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
  • 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
  • Researchers had been searching for a malaria vaccine since the late 1960s.
    Pratik Pawar, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • At the mission station and in their forest settlements, many grew sick and died from flu and malaria.
    New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Quinine is, after all, a medicine used to treat malaria, according to the Mayo Clinic.
    Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 20 July 2022
  • At the time, Langford moved to the area with his family to regain his health after battling malaria.
    Ariana Garcia, Chron, 22 Dec. 2022
  • An outbreak of malaria has hit Ethiopia’s fourth-most populous city, Dire Dawa.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov. 2022
  • It's been decades since U.S. health authorities have had malaria on their radar.
    Erika Edwards, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • At the regional hospital, the wards are packed — with malaria patients.
    Stephanie Nolen, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2022
  • In Hawaii, native songbirds are succumbing to an avian form of malaria.
    Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The gene gives them a selective advantage in places like Africa, where malaria is rampant.
    Gina Kolata, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Still, there are around 2,000 malaria cases in the US each year, all linked to travel to areas with malaria transmission.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Dark clouds of mosquitoes bit through even the toughest donkey’s hide, spreading malaria to Yaqoob and four dozen of his neighbors.
    Annie Gowen, Niko Kommenda and Saiyna Bashir, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The tragedy has stunned the West African nation, which is already grappling with other medical crises like malaria and measles.
    Vibhuti Agarwal, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Vanderbilt brought his mother to Asheville to aid in her recovery from a chronic case of malaria.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 12 Dec. 2023
  • For example, African countries make up about 96% of malaria deaths, according to WHO.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2023
  • But the gathering had been canceled because of endemic malaria in the Guna Yala area.
    Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Before the conflict, her team had been racing to combat a wave of malaria and malnutrition in Darfur ahead of the June rainy season.
    Cora Engelbrecht, New York Times, 7 June 2023
  • Nigeria, the country with the highest burden of malaria, also saw extreme flooding in 2022.
    Stephanie Nolen, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • And during the 1940s, it was seen as a panacea for America’s malaria problem – as well as a way to prevent body lice, polio, typhus and a bunch of other ailments.
    Chris Cillizza, CNN, 24 Oct. 2022
  • When malaria was diagnosed, the patient was given the malaria treatment of artemether-lumefantrine (Coartem).
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Clinical trials showed promise for malaria vaccines that might protect the children who make up the bulk of malaria deaths.
    Stephanie Nolen Malin Fezehai, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Fortunately, Bali is considered a low-to-no-risk area for malaria.
    Jessica MacDonald, Travel + Leisure, 27 Feb. 2024

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