Malaria Quotations

In the tropical and subtropical regions, endemic malaria takes first place almost everywhere among the causes of morbidity and mortality, and it constitutes the principal obstacle to the acclimatization of Europeans in these regions.

Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition

Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially wild animals. And we increasingly know which parts of the world pose the greatest risk for future incursions.

Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them.

Malaria is a disease that kills one to three million people a year. 300 to 500 million cases are reported. It's estimated that Africa loses about 13 billion dollars a year to the disease. Five dollars can save a life. We can send people to the moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get five-dollar nets to 500 million people?

For the first time, we have the genetic sequences of all three of the players in the global malaria debacle: the parasite, the anopheles mosquito and the human. It's a very important milestone.

There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.

For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria.

Millions of women in malaria-endemic areas in Africa become pregnant every year. Malaria is a threat to these women and their babies, with up to 200,000 newborn deaths each year as a result of malaria.

If we think about dignity, ... People from north to east and south really want to have dignity, and with these problems, malaria problems, people cannot go to work, kids do not go to school, and it is about dignity and the impact of this problem to our economy.

we took on as a project helping a village in western Kenya. It was 5,000 hungry people beset with malaria and AIDS. And we said, 'let's apply the recommendations of the Millennium Project in this village with the support of a private donor, because government donors don't seem to do such practical things.' And we helped them get improved seeds and some fertilizer for the planting season. That's all. Very low cost. They produced four times more food this year than last year.

I suspect it will be like malaria -- an operational hazard of doing business in China, ... After the short-term disruptions ... the level of fear will even out, and then things will balance as people figure out how to live with it.

Malaria can be beaten, the means exist. Together we can change the world and prolong the vast movement of solidarity reflected in this evening's concert,

Malaria actually could be fixed. We don't need a miracle drug. We don't need a miracle vaccine. We have the tools now. We actually could save millions of lives.

True, it's not enough (money) to eradicate malaria in the Dano region, but it is enough to keep some children alive who might otherwise die.

To put things in perspective, you must remember that it is estimated that between one and three million kids, mainly, die of malaria every year in the endemic regions. So a vaccine that can protect with a 50 percent efficacy against the severe form of the disease has the possibility of protecting against many of these deaths,

The reason that countries are using lousy drugs to treat malaria is that they can't afford better drugs.

You go to most rural areas of the tropics where malaria kills children and most are using drugs that are not effective.

Aside from all that, we recall that antibodies to malaria and other diseases prevalent in Africa show up as HIV-positive on tests.

It's like a leopard being able to change its spots. New forms come up, and the immune system beats them down again. Because of this a lot of people think you need five years of constant exposure to malaria in its different disguises to gain immunity.

In Mozambique there has been a problem with payment - and there are problems there like malaria and high tax rates. It's not friendly for us.

If you leave it until the end of the rainy season, it is pretty much too late because the malaria kicks in very soon afterwards. We're talking about pushing the prediction horizon back several months, which really does give a lot more lead time.

By dramatically changing the landscape, we are tipping the balance in a way that is increasing the risk of malaria transmission. This is one of the most detailed quantitative field studies in the Amazon that directly addresses the potential link between deforestation and malaria.

I came here to show support for all the millions of people in the world who stand to benefit if the Millennium Development Goals are reached, especially the children who will be saved from malaria or Aids, who will grow up healthy, go to school and have the chance to earn their living and enjoy life.

Very few people around the world know that cancer kills more people than HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined - until we get everyone to realize that, it will be tough to get them to act.

[we have]taming of an ancient disease [malaria] that over the centuries has killed untold millions of people.

If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.

I don't get inoculations or take anti-malaria tablets when I go abroad; I take the homeopathic alternative, called 'nosodes', and I'm the only one who never goes down with anything.

That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.

It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but from the accidents and catastrophes they dodged. A decent life was the train that hadn’t hit you, the slumlord you hadn’t offended, the malaria you hadn’t caught.

A decent life was the train that hadn’t hit you, the slumlord you hadn’t offended, the malaria you hadn’t caught

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.

Millions of children have died from malaria because they were not protected by an insecticide-treated bed net or did not receive effective treatment, ... If we expand malaria control programs and invest what's needed in (research and development), we can stop this tragedy.

With breakthroughs that will come over the next two decades, yes, we can make malaria in the whole world like it is in the United States today, something that we just don't have to worry about,

Deaths from malaria have doubled over the last 20 years,

The report confirms what has been clear, and that is that the world isn't investing nearly enough in malaria R&D,

As we step up malaria research, it's also critically important to save lives today with existing tools. Bed nets cost just a few dollars each, but only a small fraction of African children sleep under one.

It's a disgrace that the world has allowed malaria deaths to double in the last 20 years, when so much more could be done to stop the disease.

For far too long, malaria has been a forgotten epidemic, ... a disgrace that the world has allowed malaria deaths to double in the last 20 years.