malaria eradication can we do it? should we do it? @society_biology #biologyweek
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Malaria eradicationCan we do it? Should we do it?
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Biology Week11th-18th October 2014
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Biology Week is an annual celebration of the life sciences organised by the Society of Biology.
There are over 100 events and activates taking place, including six Big Biology Day science festivals,
the Society’s annual awards ceremony and the launch of ‘Biology: Changing the World’.
Biology Week gives everyone the chance to discover the amazing breadth of the biosciences, to
celebrate what biology has done for us in the past, and to debate what it can do for us in the future.
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Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites transmitted through the bites of infected mosquitoes.
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In 2012, malaria caused an estimated 627,000 deaths* mostly among African children. (*uncertainty range: 473,000 to 789,000)
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Malaria is preventable and curable.
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Increased prevention and control measures are dramatically reducing the malaria burden in many places.
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A technician examines a mosquito trap in Lupiro village.
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Colourised ‘scanning electron micrograph’ of a red blood cell infected with malaria parasites.
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Professor Chris Whitty
Chief Scientific Adviser & Director of Research, Department for International Development
Chairperson
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Professor Janet Hemingway
Director of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Insect Molecular Biology
Speaker
Position statement: “Eradication is doable if we have the right tools and they are all properly deployed but that is an enormous ask.”
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Dr Tony Holder
Head of the Division of Parasitology at the MRC-National Institute for Medical Research
Speaker
Position statement: “Malaria eradication requires a shift beyond efforts to control the disease and requires development of new tools.”
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Professor Eleanor Riley
Professor of Infectious Disease Immunology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Speaker
Position statement: “Malaria eradication is not possible with the tools and resources available.”
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Professor Robert Sinden
Head of Malaria Cell Biology at The Jenner Institute, University of Oxford.
Speaker
Position statement: “We must keep eradication as the key driver of our research.”
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