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San Diego Researchers Developing New Anti-Malaria Drug

San Diego researchers have discovered what they say is a new class of drugs that target malaria. That's hopeful news to the 40 percent of the world's population who live in malaria-infected areas

Elizabeth Winzeler, Ph.D. is a genetic researcher at Scripps Research Institute in San Diego..

The worst of Dengue mosquitoes vectors (there are many species involved on that), is that became a plague quickly in any place, despeite fo the place have or not hard cool climate, as we can saw for example in many countries were the dengue rise again in the Spring time.

One very hard consequence in Brazil, was some cities erradicated all "natural" niches were we can found mosquitoes naturally living, like hundred of species of plants of Bromeliaceae family, the same of pineapple (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromeliaceae ) that we found in Brazil (since small sizes til very huge ones). This plant family is very comum in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest areas (all Brazil shore front of Atlantic Ocean, a huge area, and in many caees until hundreds of kilometers inside the continet due the reach of this kind of vegetation in the past).

In some places this plants become extinct in the last 15 years due the hard action of cities governments don't allow this plants inside the cities or near of, due the natural deposits of water that the lpant keep, with a complete ecosystem inside, with many insects, amphibians and were was found many Dengue mosquitoes species since from North to South of Brazil.

This extinction was advised by Brazilian scientists few years ago, but municipalities don't have control over the actions of citizens that continue think that is a risk, that remain destroying this kind of vegetation near your homes due the scare of DENGUE epidemies, mainly in the Spring and Summer times.

We really hope that this plague could be stopped some day.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/InfectiousDisease/GeneralInfectiousDisease/24937

"There are some really promising leads," Fauci told reporters at the mid-point of a three-day meeting on the disease, jointly sponsored by his institute, the CDC, and the Pan American Health Organization in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Fauci said several vaccine candidates are in various stages of development -- from pre-clinical to phase III trials -- including a chimeric vaccine being developed by Sanofi Pasteur that the company has said might be available by 2015.

If that drug does well in ongoing efficacy trials, Fauci said, then the remaining hurdles will be regulatory and a vaccine might be "just a few years away."

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