Timeline of malaria in 2015

This is a timeline of malaria in 2015, attempting to describe progress related to the disease throughout the year.

Development summary

 * Parasites: Mutations linked to resistance are found.
 * Vectors: Mosquitoes can be infected by multiple strains. Spider is found to hund female '. A strain of mosquitoes capable of rapidly introducing malaria-blocking genes is created in lab. technique is used to alter '.
 * Drugs, treatment, and control methods: Antimalarial is found to reduce heart rate. Also, Parkinson's disease may be treatable with antimalarials.
 * Vaccine: Malaria vaccine candidate trials are conducted with reported promising results.
 * Eradication and control progress: Report reveals that nearly 700 million cases of malaria have been prevented in Africa as a result of concerted efforts to tackle the disease since 2000. becomes the first malaria-free country in the South-East Asia WHO Region.
 * Vector control: The population at risk in sleeping under an insecticide-treated mosquito net (ITN) or protected by indoor residual spraying (IRS) reaches 57% (up from 37% in 2010).
 * Other: is awarded the 2015  "for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria".

How the timeline was built
The initial version of the timeline was written by User:Sebastian.

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