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This is a '''timeline of malaria in 2014'''.
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This is a '''timeline of {{w|malaria}} in 2014'''.
  
 
== Development summary ==
 
== Development summary ==
  
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*'''Parasites''':
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*'''Parasites''': Plasmodium parasite alters body odor in mice. The parasite is also found to penetrate the {{w|bone marrow}}. ''{{w|Plasmodium knowlesi}}'' increases incidence in {{w|Borneo}}.
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*'''Vectors''':
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*'''Vectors''': {{w|Anopheles gambiae}} is genetically modified. Mosquitos are "vaccinated" against ''{{w|Plasmodium}}'' parasite.
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*'''Drugs, vaccines, treatment, and control methods''':
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*'''Drugs''': Antimalarial {{w|chloroquine}} could prevent {{w|liver cancer}}.
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*'''Vaccines''': Critical protein is extracted from ''{{w|Escherichia coli}}''. {{w|RTS,S}} is trialed in 15,000 infants and children in {{w|Africa}}.
 
*'''Eradication and control progress''': About 269 million of the 834 million people at risk of malaria lived in households without a single {{w|Insecticide treated net}} or {{w|Indoor residual spraying}}. Also, 15 million of the 28 million pregnant women at risk did not receive a single dose of [[w:Intermittent preventive therapy|IPTp]].<ref name="WORLD MALARIA  REPORT 2015"/>
 
*'''Eradication and control progress''': About 269 million of the 834 million people at risk of malaria lived in households without a single {{w|Insecticide treated net}} or {{w|Indoor residual spraying}}. Also, 15 million of the 28 million pregnant women at risk did not receive a single dose of [[w:Intermittent preventive therapy|IPTp]].<ref name="WORLD MALARIA  REPORT 2015"/>
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*'''Vector control''': {{w|Drone}}s are introduced. {{w|Google Earth Engine}} is used to track risk areas.
  
 
== Key figures ==
 
== Key figures ==
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| '''Global deaths'''  
 
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| 438,000<ref name="Malaria: Mosquitoes breed disaster in Burundi"/>
 
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| '''Rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) sold'''  
 
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| January 14 || Engineering (drug) || Biologists at {{w|University of California, Berkeley}} develop new ways to genetically modify yeast to produce antimalarial {{w|artemisinin}}, with the purpose of getting the lowest possible price (in China, where most of the crop is grown, the price swung from 200$ to 1,100$ per kilogram).<ref>{{cite web|title=Biologists Modify Yeast to Produce Malaria Drug|url=http://discovermagazine.com/2014/jan-feb/23-synthesizing-supply-for-malaria-drug|website=discovermagazine.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || United States
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| January 14 || Drug || Biologists at {{w|University of California, Berkeley}} develop new ways to genetically modify yeast to produce antimalarial {{w|artemisinin}}, with the purpose of getting the lowest possible price (in China, where most of the crop is grown, the price swung from 200$ to 1,100$ per kilogram).<ref>{{cite web|title=Biologists Modify Yeast to Produce Malaria Drug|url=http://discovermagazine.com/2014/jan-feb/23-synthesizing-supply-for-malaria-drug|website=discovermagazine.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || United States
 
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| January 14 || Engineering (vaccine) || Researchers at {{w|Tulane University}} manage to use ''{{w|Escherichia coli}}'' bacteria to inexpensively manufacture protein CHrPfs25, which is critical to the development of a malaria vaccine.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Brannon-Tulane|first1=Keith|title=E. coli may offer cheap way to create a malaria vaccine|url=http://www.futurity.org/will-malaria-vaccine-come-e-coli/|website=futurity.org|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || United States
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| January 14 || Vaccine || Researchers at {{w|Tulane University}} manage to use ''{{w|Escherichia coli}}'' bacteria to inexpensively manufacture protein CHrPfs25, which is critical to the development of a malaria vaccine.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Brannon-Tulane|first1=Keith|title=E. coli may offer cheap way to create a malaria vaccine|url=http://www.futurity.org/will-malaria-vaccine-come-e-coli/|website=futurity.org|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || United States
 
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| January 16 || Engineering (testing) || United Kingdom biotech firm develops a handheld device able to detect infectious diseases such as malaria in just 15 minutes. The device is expected to be used by professionals in rural areas of developing nations to test more efficiently.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Stunt|first1=Victoria|title=Handheld DNA analysis device could diagnose malaria|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/handheld-dna-analysis-device-could-diagnose-malaria-1.2497519|website=cbc.ca|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || United Kingdom
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| January 16 || Testing || United Kingdom biotech firm develops a handheld device able to detect infectious diseases such as malaria in just 15 minutes. The device is expected to be used by professionals in rural areas of developing nations to test more efficiently.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Stunt|first1=Victoria|title=Handheld DNA analysis device could diagnose malaria|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/handheld-dna-analysis-device-could-diagnose-malaria-1.2497519|website=cbc.ca|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || United Kingdom
 
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| February 10 || Medical development (vaccine) || iBio Inc., a manufacturer of biological products, reports the initiation of a Phase 1 human safety and immunogenicity clinical study of a transmission-blocking malaria vaccine candidate. Clearance was obtained from the {{w|FDA}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Phase 1 Clinical Trial Begins for Malaria Vaccine Candidate Based on iBio's Proprietary Technology|url=http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/phase-1-clinical-trial-begins-malaria-vaccine-candidate-based-on-ibios-proprietary-technology-nyse-mkt-ibio-1877242.htm|website=marketwired.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || United States
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| February 10 || Vaccine || iBio Inc., a manufacturer of biological products, reports the initiation of a Phase 1 human safety and immunogenicity clinical study of a transmission-blocking malaria vaccine candidate. Clearance was obtained from the {{w|FDA}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=Phase 1 Clinical Trial Begins for Malaria Vaccine Candidate Based on iBio's Proprietary Technology|url=http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/phase-1-clinical-trial-begins-malaria-vaccine-candidate-based-on-ibios-proprietary-technology-nyse-mkt-ibio-1877242.htm|website=marketwired.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Phase 1 Clinical Trial Begins for Malaria Vaccine Candidate Based on iBio's Proprietary Technology|url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/phase-1-clinical-trial-begins-133100668.html|website=yahoo.com|accessdate=1 August 2017}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}
 
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| February 23 || Scientific discovery (parasite) || Two research teams working independently discover that a single {{w|protein}} (AP2-G) acts as the master genetic switch that triggers the development of male and female sexual forms of the malaria parasite.<ref>{{cite web|title=Key protein discovered as essential for malaria parasite transmission to mosquitos|url=https://phys.org/news/2014-02-key-protein-essential-malaria-parasite.html|website=phys.org|accessdate=4 July 2017}}</ref> || United States, United Kingdom
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| February 23 || Parasite || Two research teams working independently discover that a single {{w|protein}} (AP2-G) acts as the master genetic switch that triggers the development of male and female sexual forms of the malaria parasite.<ref>{{cite web|title=Key protein discovered as essential for malaria parasite transmission to mosquitos|url=https://phys.org/news/2014-02-key-protein-essential-malaria-parasite.html|website=phys.org|accessdate=4 July 2017}}</ref> || United States, United Kingdom
 
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| March 10 || Scientific discovery (vector) || Researchers at the {{w|London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine}} and the {{w|University of Michigan}}, find that many areas and land masses are experiencing a gradual but noticeable warming, prompting the risk of causing malaria's domain to expand.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Moll|first1=Maryanne|title=Malaria spreading to higher grounds, thanks to global warming|url=http://www.techtimes.com/articles/4155/20140310/malaria-spreading-to-higher-grounds-thanks-to-global-warming.htm|website=techtimes.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || United Kingdom, United States
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| March 10 || Vector || Researchers at the {{w|London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine}} and the {{w|University of Michigan}}, find that many areas and land masses are experiencing a gradual but noticeable warming, prompting the risk of causing malaria's domain to expand.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Moll|first1=Maryanne|title=Malaria spreading to higher grounds, thanks to global warming|url=http://www.techtimes.com/articles/4155/20140310/malaria-spreading-to-higher-grounds-thanks-to-global-warming.htm|website=techtimes.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || United Kingdom, United States
 
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| March 13 || Testing || {{w|Stanford University}} professor develops US$50 cents, foldscope paper microscope that can diagnose malaria.<ref>{{cite web|title=Foldscope paper microscope can diagnose malaria, costs 50 cents|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/foldscope-paper-microscope-can-diagnose-malaria-costs-50-cents-1.2571660|website=cbc.ca|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || United States
 
| March 13 || Testing || {{w|Stanford University}} professor develops US$50 cents, foldscope paper microscope that can diagnose malaria.<ref>{{cite web|title=Foldscope paper microscope can diagnose malaria, costs 50 cents|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/foldscope-paper-microscope-can-diagnose-malaria-costs-50-cents-1.2571660|website=cbc.ca|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || United States
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| April 17 || Vaccine || Indian scientists report having obtained promising vaccine candidate against malaria, showing 80 to 85% efficacy in mice.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Gandhi|first1=Divya|title=Indigenous malaria vaccine shows promise in mice studies|url=http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/medicine-and-research/indigenous-malaria-vaccine-shows-promise-in-mice-studies/article5918997.ece|website=thehindu.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || {{w|India}}
 
| April 17 || Vaccine || Indian scientists report having obtained promising vaccine candidate against malaria, showing 80 to 85% efficacy in mice.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Gandhi|first1=Divya|title=Indigenous malaria vaccine shows promise in mice studies|url=http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/medicine-and-research/indigenous-malaria-vaccine-shows-promise-in-mice-studies/article5918997.ece|website=thehindu.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || {{w|India}}
 
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| April 24 || Discovery (resistance)|| International team manages to identify a genetic marker of {{w|artemisinin}} [[w:drug resistance|resistance]], after having first created a ''{{w|Plasmodium}}'' [[w:strain (biology)|strain]] in the laboratory that resists high levels of artemisinin and comparing its {{w|DNA}} with the non–resistant parent strain.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Cookson|first1=Clive|title=Researchers test new ways of controlling malaria|url=https://www.ft.com/content/0e785716-be6d-11e3-a1bf-00144feabdc0|website=ft.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Researchers test new ways of controlling malaria|url=https://www.ft.com/content/0e785716-be6d-11e3-a1bf-00144feabdc0|website=ft.com|accessdate=6 July 2017}}</ref> ||  
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| April 24 || Resistance || International team manages to identify a genetic marker of {{w|artemisinin}} [[w:drug resistance|resistance]], after having first created a ''{{w|Plasmodium}}'' [[w:strain (biology)|strain]] in the laboratory that resists high levels of artemisinin and comparing its {{w|DNA}} with the non–resistant parent strain.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Cookson|first1=Clive|title=Researchers test new ways of controlling malaria|url=https://www.ft.com/content/0e785716-be6d-11e3-a1bf-00144feabdc0|website=ft.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Researchers test new ways of controlling malaria|url=https://www.ft.com/content/0e785716-be6d-11e3-a1bf-00144feabdc0|website=ft.com|accessdate=6 July 2017}}</ref> ||  
 
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| April 25 || || "In Mangalore, a port city in southwest India, school children and volunteers hope to curb the occurrence of the disease via the Guppy movement, a campaign that aims to control malaria by using a rather peculiar but natural means of eliminating mosquitoes using guppies"<ref>{{cite web|last1=Lee|first1=Rhodi|title=World Malaria Day: India fights mosquitoes with guppy fish project|url=http://www.techtimes.com/articles/6107/20140425/world-malaria-day-india-fights-mosquitoes-with-guppy-fish-project.htm|website=techtimes.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Paul|first1=Stella|title=India Finds Fishy Ways to Fight Malaria|url=http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/04/india-finds-fishy-ways-fight-malaria/|website=ipsnews.net|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> ||
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| April 25 || Campaign || School children and volunteers from {{w|Mangalore}}, {{w|India}}, launch the Guppy movement campaign, a movement with aims at controlling malaria by using {{w|guppy}} fish to eliminate mosquito larvae.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Lee|first1=Rhodi|title=World Malaria Day: India fights mosquitoes with guppy fish project|url=http://www.techtimes.com/articles/6107/20140425/world-malaria-day-india-fights-mosquitoes-with-guppy-fish-project.htm|website=techtimes.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Paul|first1=Stella|title=India Finds Fishy Ways to Fight Malaria|url=http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/04/india-finds-fishy-ways-fight-malaria/|website=ipsnews.net|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=India Finds Fishy Ways to Fight Malaria|url=http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/04/india-finds-fishy-ways-fight-malaria/|website=ipsnews.net|accessdate=1 August 2017}}</ref> || {{w|India}}
 
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| May 22 || || "New Malaria Vaccine Shows Promise in Mice"<ref>{{cite web|last1=Norton|first1=Elizabeth|title=New Malaria Vaccine Shows Promise in Mice|url=http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/05/new-malaria-vaccine-shows-promise-mice|website=sciencemag.org|accessdate=4 July 2017}}</ref> ||
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| May 22 || Vaccine || Researchers from {{w|Brown University}}, {{w|Rhode Island Hospital}} and the {{w|National Institutes of Health}} discover protective antibodies in protein  PfSEA-1 that is essential for malaria–causing parasites to escape from inside red blood cells. These antibodies, which were found in malaria–resistant children from {{w|Tanzania}}  are tested in [[w:mouse|mice]], leading to a significant protection against {{w|malaria}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=Protein that may lead to malaria vaccine discovered|url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140522141424.htm|website=sciencedaily.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web|last1=Norton|first1=Elizabeth|title=New Malaria Vaccine Shows Promise in Mice|url=http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/05/new-malaria-vaccine-shows-promise-mice|website=sciencemag.org|accessdate=4 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=A promising protein discovery in malaria|url=https://news.brown.edu/articles/2014/05/malaria|website=brown.edu|accessdate=31 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Raj et al|first1=Dipak K.|title=Antibodies to PfSEA-1 block parasite egress from RBCs and protect against malaria infection|doi=10.1126/science.1254417|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4184151/|accessdate=31 July 2017|pmc=4184151}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Has Malaria Met Its Match?|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulrodgers/2014/05/23/has-malaria-met-its-match/#741d4adb7e8b|accessdate=4 July 2017|agency=Forbes|date=May 23, 2014}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}
 
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| May 22 || || "A protein that is essential for malaria-causing parasites to escape from inside red blood cells has been discovered by scientists. This protein could lead to the development of a vaccine that would prevent the progression of Plasmodium falciparum malaria"<ref>{{cite web|title=Protein that may lead to malaria vaccine discovered|url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140522141424.htm|website=sciencedaily.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> ||
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| June 10 || Vector || Research team at {{w|Imperial College London}} manages to genetically modify {{w|Anopheles gambiae}} mosquitoes so that the modified mosquitoes produce 95% male offspring. More importantly, this reproductive tendency is found to be inherited by the offspring of the modified mosquitoes.<ref>{{cite web|title=Scientists wipe out malaria-carrying mosquitoes in lab with male-only offspring|url=http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_10-6-2014-16-5-11|website=imperial.ac.uk|accessdate=1 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Genetically Modifying Mosquitoes to ‘Bite the Dust’? Ethical Considerations|url=http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2014/06/genetically-modifying-mosquitoes-to-bite-the-dust-ethical-considerations/|website=ox.ac.uk|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=How Sex Could Wipe Out Malaria|url=http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/sex-wipe-malaria/story?id=24141137|website=go.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || {{w|United Kingdom}}
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| May 23 || || "A new vaccine based on the blood of toddlers with a natural resistance to the mosquito-borne illness is exciting scientists and public-health officials alike."<ref>{{cite news|title=Has Malaria Met Its Match?|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulrodgers/2014/05/23/has-malaria-met-its-match/#741d4adb7e8b|accessdate=4 July 2017|agency=Forbes|date=May 23, 2014}}</ref> ||
 
 
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| June 12 || || "it was reported that scientists have made a breakthrough in genetic modification that could be used in the fight against malaria. A team at Imperial College London have successfully genetically modified Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes so that the modified mosquitoes produce 95% male offspring. More importantly this reproductive tendency was inherited by the offspring of the modified mosquitoes."<ref>{{cite web|title=Genetically Modifying Mosquitoes to ‘Bite the Dust’? Ethical Considerations|url=http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2014/06/genetically-modifying-mosquitoes-to-bite-the-dust-ethical-considerations/|website=ox.ac.uk|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || United Kingdom
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| June 13 || Evaluation || Researchers from {{w|Imperial College London}}, {{w|Institut Pasteur Paris}} and other organizations call for new methods to evaluate malaria programs.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Davenport|first1=Francesca|title=Researchers call for new evaluation methods to assess malaria programmes|url=http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_12-6-2014-18-17-49|website=imperial.ac.uk|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> ||
 
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| June 13 || || "researchers from Imperial College London, Institut Pasteur Paris and other organisations have called for new methods to evaluate malaria programmes. Franca Davenport asks one of the authors, Dr Tom Churcher from the School of Public Health at Imperial College London, about the need for new evaluation methods and the possible advantages of their proposed new approach."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Davenport|first1=Francesca|title=Researchers call for new evaluation methods to assess malaria programmes|url=http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_12-6-2014-18-17-49|website=imperial.ac.uk|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> ||
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| June 30 || Parasite/Vector || Researchers from {{w|Pennsylvania State University}} and the {{w|Swiss Federal Institute of Technology}}  find that malaria ''Plasmodium'' parasite in mice alters their body odor to entice mosquitoes.<ref>{{cite web|title=Malaria parasite alters host body odor to entice mosquitoes|url=http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-malaria-odor-mosquitoes-20140630-story.html|website=latimes.com|accessdate=4 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Elyse Messer|first1=Andrea|title=Malaria parasite manipulates host's scent|url=http://news.psu.edu/story/319648/2014/06/30/research/malaria-parasite-manipulates-hosts-scent|website=psu.edu|accessdate=1 August 2017}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}
 
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| June 15 || || "Scientists think they have figured out a way to wipe out mosquitoes that transmit malari. Based on laboratory experiments, they think they can do it by messing up the sex life of Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito that sucks blood out of other animals, including humans, that carries the parasite that causes a disease for which there is no vaccine."<ref>{{cite web|title=How Sex Could Wipe Out Malaria|url=http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/sex-wipe-malaria/story?id=24141137|website=go.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || United Kingdom
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| July 9 || Parasite || Researchers at {{w|Harvard School of Public Health}} in {{w|Boston}} claims having evidence that malaria parasite lurks in the {{w|bone marrow}}, flexible tissue in the interior of bones where blood cells are produced.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Berman|first1=Jessica|title=Researchers Confirm Presence of Malaria Parasite in Bone Marrow|url=https://www.voanews.com/a/researchers-confirm-presence-of-malaria-parasite-in-bone-marrow/1954382.html|website=voanews.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Malaria parasite can hide in bone marrow|url=https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/malaria-parasite-can-hide-in-bone-marrow/|website=harvard.edu|accessdate=1 August 2017}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}
 
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| June 30 || || "Malaria parasite alters host body odor to entice mosquitoes"<ref>{{cite web|title=Malaria parasite alters host body odor to entice mosquitoes|url=http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-malaria-odor-mosquitoes-20140630-story.html|website=latimes.com|accessdate=4 July 2017}}</ref> ||
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| July 21 || Drug || Scientists at {{w|University College London}} discover cheap anti-malarial drug {{w|chloroquine}} could prevent {{w|liver cancer}}.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Knapton|first1=Sarah|title=Malaria drug could prevent liver cancer|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/10978915/Malaria-drug-could-prevent-liver-cancer.html|website=telegraph.co.uk|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Malaria pill could prevent liver cancer|url=http://www.oncologynurseadvisor.com/headlines/malaria-pill-could-prevent-liver-cancer/article/362801/|website=oncologynurseadvisor.com|accessdate=1 August 2017}}</ref> || {{w|United Kingdom}}
 
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| July 9 || || "Researchers say they have evidence the malaria parasite lurks in bone marrow, a spongy tissue inside bones where blood cells are produced. The discovery offers hope that new treatments can be found to fight the disease, which kills an estimated one million people each year."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Berman|first1=Jessica|title=Researchers Confirm Presence of Malaria Parasite in Bone Marrow|url=https://www.voanews.com/a/researchers-confirm-presence-of-malaria-parasite-in-bone-marrow/1954382.html|website=voanews.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> ||
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| July 17 || Parasite || Scientists from the {{w|Burnet Institute}}, {{w|Deakin University}} and {{w|Monash University}} in Australia manage to starve the malaria parasite ''Plasmodium'' of important {{w|protein}}s essential to its survival, providing a target for the development of new antimalarial drugs.<ref>{{cite web|title=Breakthrough made in quest for new malaria drugs as resistance fears grow|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/17/breakthrough-malaria-drugs-resistance-fears-grow|website=theguardian.com|accessdate=4 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Purdy|first1=Michael C.|title=Scientists find way to trap, kill malaria parasite|url=https://source.wustl.edu/2014/07/scientists-find-way-to-trap-kill-malaria-parasite/|website=wustl.edu|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || {{w|Australia}}
 
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| July 21 || || "A cheap anti-malarial drug could prevent liver cancer, scientists at University College London have discovered, offering hope for hundreds of thousands who are at risk of the disease"<ref>{{cite web|last1=Knapton|first1=Sarah|title=Malaria drug could prevent liver cancer|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/10978915/Malaria-drug-could-prevent-liver-cancer.html|website=telegraph.co.uk|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> ||
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| July 21 || Testing || Researchers at {{w|Monash University}} and the {{w|University of Melbourne}} in {{w|Australia}} make use of advanced military hardware meant for missile defense and turn it into a way to rapidly identify malaria parasites in humans.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Kulze|first1=Elizabeth|title=How Anti-Missile Technology Is Being Used to Detect Malaria|url=http://www.vocativ.com/culture/science/anti-missile-technology-used-detect-malaria/|website=vocativ.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=UWM physicists’ technology used in early malaria detection|url=https://uwm.edu/news/uwm-physicists-technology-used-in-early-malaria-detection/|website=uwm.edu|accessdate=1 August 2017}}</ref> || {{w|Australia}}
 
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| July 17 || || "Scientists from the Burnet Institute, Deakin University and Monash University were able to starve the malaria parasite of important proteins essential to its survival, providing a target for the development of new antimalarial drugs"<ref>{{cite web|title=Breakthrough made in quest for new malaria drugs as resistance fears grow|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/17/breakthrough-malaria-drugs-resistance-fears-grow|website=theguardian.com|accessdate=4 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Purdy|first1=Michael C.|title=Scientists find way to trap, kill malaria parasite|url=https://source.wustl.edu/2014/07/scientists-find-way-to-trap-kill-malaria-parasite/|website=wustl.edu|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> ||
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| July 29 || Vaccine || After conducting advanced trial in several African countries involving 15,000 infants and children, British pharmaceutical company {{w|GlaxoSmithKline}} asks the [[w:European Medicines Agency|European Medicine's Authority]] to approve {{w|RTS,S}} vaccine for global use.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Mundasad|first1=Smitha|title='Milestone' for child malaria vaccine|url=http://www.bbc.com/news/health-28541939|website=bbc.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> ||
 
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| July 21 || || "Researchers at Monash University and the University of Melbourne in Australia have found a way to rapidly identify malaria parasites in humans using advanced military hardware meant for missile defense."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Kulze|first1=Elizabeth|title=How Anti-Missile Technology Is Being Used to Detect Malaria|url=http://www.vocativ.com/culture/science/anti-missile-technology-used-detect-malaria/|website=vocativ.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> ||
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| August 10 || Parasite || Biological engineers at the [[wikipedia:MIT|Massachusets Institute of Technology]] demonstrate that [[wikipedia:CRISPR|CRISPR]] genome-editing technique can disrupt a single parasite gene with a success rate of up to 100% — in a matter of weeks. This approach could enable much more rapid malaria gene analysis and boost drug-development efforts.<ref>{{cite web|title=An easier way to manipulate malaria genes|url=http://news.mit.edu/2014/better-malaria-drug-targets-0810|website=mit.edu|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || [[wikipedia:United States|United States]]
 
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| July 29 || || "Experts say the world's first malaria vaccine could be approved for use in 2015."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Mundasad|first1=Smitha|title='Milestone' for child malaria vaccine|url=http://www.bbc.com/news/health-28541939|website=bbc.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> ||
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| August 24 || Testing || Scientific paper describes method based on {{w|computer vision}} {{w|algorithm}}s similar to those used in {{w|facial recognition system}}s combined with visualization of only the diagnostically most relevant areas as a means for obtaining a significantly improved malaria diagnostic. <ref>{{cite web|title=Man And Machine: Facial Recognition System Improves Malaria Diagnostics|url=http://www.science20.com/news_articles/man_and_machine_facial_recognition_system_improves_malaria_diagnostics-143173|website=science20.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> ||
 
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| August 10 || || Biological engineers at the [[wikipedia:MIT|Massachusets Institute of Technology]] demonstrate that [[wikipedia:CRISPR|CRISPR]] genome-editing technique can disrupt a single parasite gene with a success rate of up to 100% — in a matter of weeks. This approach could enable much more rapid malaria gene analysis and boost drug-development efforts.<ref>{{cite web|title=An easier way to manipulate malaria genes|url=http://news.mit.edu/2014/better-malaria-drug-targets-0810|website=mit.edu|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || [[wikipedia:United States|United States]]
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| September 3 || Parasite || Professor at the {{w|University of Connecticut}} designs a self-assembling protein nanoparticle that shows to be effective at getting the immune system to attack malaria parasite ''{{w|Plasmodium falciparum}}'', after it enters the body and before it has a chance to hide and aggressively spread.<ref>{{cite web|title=UConn Researcher’s Nanoparticle Key to New Malaria Vaccine|url=http://today.uconn.edu/2014/09/uconn-researchers-nanoparticle-key-to-new-malaria-vaccine/|website=uconn.edu|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || United States
 
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| August 24 || || "Man And Machine: Facial Recognition System Improves Malaria Diagnostics"<ref>{{cite web|title=Man And Machine: Facial Recognition System Improves Malaria Diagnostics|url=http://www.science20.com/news_articles/man_and_machine_facial_recognition_system_improves_malaria_diagnostics-143173|website=science20.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> ||
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| September 9 || Testing || Researchers at {{w|Singapore–MIT alliance}} develop an inexpensive device that can accurately diagnose malaria within minutes by using only a droplet of blood.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Pandey|first1=Avaneesh|title=Scientists Invent Inexpensive, Quick And Accurate Malaria Test|url=http://www.ibtimes.com/scientists-invent-inexpensive-quick-accurate-malaria-test-1674922|accessdate=4 July 2017}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}
 
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| September 3 || || " UConn Researcher’s Nanoparticle Key to New Malaria Vaccine."<ref>{{cite web|title=UConn Researcher’s Nanoparticle Key to New Malaria Vaccine|url=http://today.uconn.edu/2014/09/uconn-researchers-nanoparticle-key-to-new-malaria-vaccine/|website=uconn.edu|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> ||
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| September 10 || Control || Researchers at the {{w|University of California, San Francisco}} develop an online platform that health workers around the world could use to predict where malaria is likely to be transmitted using data on {{w|Google Earth Engine}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=UCSF, Google Earth Engine Making Maps to Predict Malaria|url=https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/09/116906/ucsf-google-earth-engine-making-maps-predict-malaria|website=ucsf.edu|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}
 
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| September 9 || || "Scientists Invent Inexpensive, Quick And Accurate Malaria Test"<ref>{{cite web|last1=Pandey|first1=Avaneesh|title=Scientists Invent Inexpensive, Quick And Accurate Malaria Test|url=http://www.ibtimes.com/scientists-invent-inexpensive-quick-accurate-malaria-test-1674922|accessdate=4 July 2017}}</ref> ||
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| October 22 || Control || Researchers on the island of Borneo make use of flying robots to map out areas affected by malaria parasite {{w|Plasmodium knowlesi}}, which most commonly infects macaque monkeys. The small camera-carrying drone creates maps and digital surface models of the land and vegetation surrounding communities where ''P. knowlesi'' has turned up in humans. <ref>{{cite web|title=How Drones Are Fighting Infectious Disease|url=https://www.livescience.com/48396-drones-track-infectious-disease.html|website=livescience.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || {{w|Malaysia}}
 
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| September 10 || || "UC San Francisco (UCSF) is working to create an online platform that health workers around the world can use to predict where malaria is likely to be transmitted using data on Google Earth Engine."<ref>{{cite web|title=UCSF, Google Earth Engine Making Maps to Predict Malaria|url=https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/09/116906/ucsf-google-earth-engine-making-maps-predict-malaria|website=ucsf.edu|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> ||
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| October 27 || Vector || Researchers at {{w|Johns Hopkins University}} manage to “vaccinate” mosquitos against the parasite that causes malaria and the virus that causes dengue, by using bacteria {{w|Chromobacterium}}, which prevents the pathogens from effectively invading and colonizing mosquito guts.<ref>{{cite web|title=Exploiting insect microbiomes to curb malaria and dengue|url=http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2014/10/27/exploiting-insect-microbiomes-to-curb-malaria-and-dengue/|website=stanford.edu|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Ramirez et al|first1=Jose Luis|title=Chromobacterium Csp_P Reduces Malaria and Dengue Infection in Vector Mosquitoes and Has Entomopathogenic and In Vitro Anti-pathogen Activities|url=http://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1004398|accessdate=5 August 2017|quote=Ingestion of Csp_P by the mosquito significantly reduces its susceptibility to Plasmodium falciparum and dengue virus infection, thereby compromising the mosquito's vector competence. This bacterium also exerts in vitro anti-Plasmodium and anti-dengue activities, which appear to be mediated through Csp_P -produced stable bioactive factors with transmission-blocking and therapeutic potential.}}</ref> || United States
 
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| October 22 || || "Researchers on the island of Borneo are using flying robots to map out areas affected by a type of malaria parasite (Plasmodium knowlesi), which most commonly infects macaque monkeys." "Drakeley and his colleagues used a small, camera-carrying drone called a senseFly eBee to create maps and digital surface models of the land and vegetation surrounding communities where P. knowlesi has turned up in humans. The drone can fly for up to 50 minutes and carries a 16-megapixel digital camera."<ref>{{cite web|title=How Drones Are Fighting Infectious Disease|url=https://www.livescience.com/48396-drones-track-infectious-disease.html|website=livescience.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || Malaysia
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| November 3 || Funding || {{w|Microsoft}} magnate {{w|Bill Gates}} announces his foundation will give away $500 million during 2014 to combat diseases like malaria on top of the $50 million it already committed to fighting Ebola.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Alexander|first1=Dan|title=Bill Gates Gives $500 Million To Fight Malaria, Other Diseases|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2014/11/03/bill-gates-gives-500-million-to-fight-malaria-other-diseases/#72cdef0a1cb8|website=forbes.com|accessdate=4 July 2017}}</ref> || United States
 
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| October 27 || || "a group of scientists from Johns Hopkins University may have found a novel way of curbing both diseases: by “vaccinating” mosquitos against the parasite that causes malaria and the virus that causes dengue. The researchers are using the bacteria Chromobacterium, which prevents the pathogens from effectively invading and colonizing mosquito guts.a group of scientists from Johns Hopkins University may have found a novel way of curbing both diseases: by “vaccinating” mosquitos against the parasite that causes malaria and the virus that causes dengue. The researchers are using the bacteria Chromobacterium, which prevents the pathogens from effectively invading and colonizing mosquito guts."<ref>{{cite web|title=Exploiting insect microbiomes to curb malaria and dengue|url=http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2014/10/27/exploiting-insect-microbiomes-to-curb-malaria-and-dengue/|website=stanford.edu|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || United States
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| November 6 || Parasite || Infections with the parasite ''{{w|Plasmodium knowlesi}}'' show increase in the Malaysian states of {{w|Sarawak}} and {{w|Sabah}} on the island of {{w|Borneo}}. Ther parasite, which is carried by long-tailed and pig-tailed macaques, appears to be jumping to people as a result of {{w|deforestation}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=Uncommon malaria spreading in Malaysia|url=https://www.sciencenews.org/article/uncommon-malaria-spreading-malaysia|website=sciencenews.org|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=McNEIL Jr|first1=DONALD G.|title=A Rare Form of Malaria Is Spreading in Malaysia|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/health/a-rare-form-of-malaria-is-spreading-in-malaysia.html|website=nytimes.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Imai et al|first1=Natsuko|title=Transmission and Control of Plasmodium knowlesi: A Mathematical Modelling Study|url=http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0002978|accessdate=5 August 2017}}</ref> || {{w|Malaysia}}
 
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| November 3 || || "Bill Gates announced Sunday his foundation will give away $500 million this year to combat diseases like malaria on top of the $50 million it already committed to fighting Ebola."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Alexander|first1=Dan|title=Bill Gates Gives $500 Million To Fight Malaria, Other Diseases|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2014/11/03/bill-gates-gives-500-million-to-fight-malaria-other-diseases/#72cdef0a1cb8|website=forbes.com|accessdate=4 July 2017}}</ref> ||
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| December 4 || Symptom || Researchers at {{w|New York University School of Medicine}} find that blood pressure build-up from white blood cells may cause cerebral malaria death.<ref>{{cite web|title=Blood pressure build-up from white blood cells may cause cerebral malaria death|url=https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-12/p-bpb112614.php|website=eurekalert.org|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Blood pressure build-up from white blood cells may cause cerebral malaria death|url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141204142617.htm|website=sciencedaily.com|accessdate=5 August 2017}}</ref>
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| November 6 || || "A form of malaria found in wild monkeys has begun to infect people so often in parts of Southeast Asia that it has become the leading cause of malaria in Malaysia." "Parasite’s jump from monkeys to people seems aided by deforestation"<ref>{{cite web|title=Uncommon malaria spreading in Malaysia|url=https://www.sciencenews.org/article/uncommon-malaria-spreading-malaysia|website=sciencenews.org|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=McNEIL Jr|first1=DONALD G.|title=A Rare Form of Malaria Is Spreading in Malaysia|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/health/a-rare-form-of-malaria-is-spreading-in-malaysia.html|website=nytimes.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || Malaysia
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| December 9 || Parasite || Researchers at the {{w|University of Basel}} and the {{w|Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute}} develop so-called nanomimics of host cell membranes that trick parasites, leading to the possibility of novel treatment and vaccination strategies in the fight against malaria and other infectious diseases.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nanotechnology against malaria parasites|url=https://phys.org/news/2014-12-nanotechnology-malaria-parasites.html|website=phys.org|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Nanotechnology battles malaria parasites|url=https://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/12/nanotechnology-battles-malaria-parasites|website=rdmag.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || {{w|Switzerland}}
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| December 4 || || "Blood pressure build-up from white blood cells may cause cerebral malaria death"<ref>{{cite web|title=Blood pressure build-up from white blood cells may cause cerebral malaria death|url=https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-12/p-bpb112614.php|website=eurekalert.org|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> ||
 
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| December 9 || || "Researchers at the University of Basel and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute have now developed so-called nanomimics of host cell membranes that trick the parasites. This could lead to novel treatment and vaccination strategies in the fight against malaria and other infectious diseases."<ref>{{cite web|title=Nanotechnology against malaria parasites|url=https://phys.org/news/2014-12-nanotechnology-malaria-parasites.html|website=phys.org|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Nanotechnology battles malaria parasites|url=https://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/12/nanotechnology-battles-malaria-parasites|website=rdmag.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || Switzerland
 
 
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| December 9 || Report || The {{w|World Health Organisation}} publishes its annual World Malaria Report, communicating a decrease in worldwide malaria mortality by 47% Between 2000-13. The rate of decrease in {{w|Africa}} –where 90% of malaria occurs– is reported at 54%.<ref>{{cite web|title=Global deaths from malaria drop by 47% – but fight hits critical phase|url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/dec/09/malaria-retreat-insecticide-resistance-africa|website=theguardian.com|accessdate=12 July 2017}}</ref> ||
 
| December 9 || Report || The {{w|World Health Organisation}} publishes its annual World Malaria Report, communicating a decrease in worldwide malaria mortality by 47% Between 2000-13. The rate of decrease in {{w|Africa}} –where 90% of malaria occurs– is reported at 54%.<ref>{{cite web|title=Global deaths from malaria drop by 47% – but fight hits critical phase|url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/dec/09/malaria-retreat-insecticide-resistance-africa|website=theguardian.com|accessdate=12 July 2017}}</ref> ||
 
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| December 11 || || "Latest research by NTU discovers reasons for malaria's drug resistance."<ref>{{cite web|title=Latest research by NTU discovers reasons for malaria's drug resistance|url=https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-12/ntu-lrb121114.php|website=eurekalert.org|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || Singapore
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| December 11 || Resistance || Researchers at {{w|Nanyang Technological University}} report having discovered exactly how the malaria parasite is developing resistance towards the most important front-line drugs used to treat the disease, after having analyzed 1,000 malaria samples taken from patients in the area of the {{w|Greater Mekong Subregion}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=Latest research by NTU discovers reasons for malaria's drug resistance|url=https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-12/ntu-lrb121114.php|website=eurekalert.org|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> || {{w|Singapore}}
 
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| December 19 || || "Google.org helping fund mobile phone project to combat malaria" "On Friday, Google.org, the search giant's philanthropic arm, announced that it's giving Malaria No More a $600,000 grant to embark on a potentially transformative data mining project in Nigeria. The grant is part of a pot of $15 million that Google.org is doling out to organizations that use technology to solve the world's biggest problems." "Africa, where malaria kills around 400,000 children every year, is set to top 1 billion mobile phone subscriptions by next year. That means that public health researchers will have one billion ways to communicate with—and collect data from—the people who are most at risk of catching malaria, a disease that has traditionally been extremely difficult to track."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Lapowsky|first1=Issie|title=The Savvy Plan to Combat Malaria With Mobile Phones|url=https://www.wired.com/2014/12/malaria-no-more-google/|website=wired.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Google.org helping fund mobile phone project to combat malaria|url=https://www.geekwire.com/2014/google-org-helping-fund-mobile-phone-project-combat-malaria/|website=geekwire.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref> ||
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| December 19 || Funding || {{w|Google.org}}, the charitable arm of {{w|Google}}, announces that it's giving a $600,000 grant to {{w|Malaria No More}} to embark on a potentially transformative data mining project in Nigeria. The grant is part of a pot of $15 million that Google.org is giving out to organizations that use technology to solve the world's biggest problems. In Africa, where 1 billion mobile phone subscriptions are predicted by 2015, it is expected that public health researchers could have one billion ways to communicate with—and collect data from—the people who are most at risk of catching malaria, a disease that has traditionally been extremely difficult to track.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Lapowsky|first1=Issie|title=The Savvy Plan to Combat Malaria With Mobile Phones|url=https://www.wired.com/2014/12/malaria-no-more-google/|website=wired.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Google.org helping fund mobile phone project to combat malaria|url=https://www.geekwire.com/2014/google-org-helping-fund-mobile-phone-project-combat-malaria/|website=geekwire.com|accessdate=5 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Google.org giving over $15 million in grants to groups including Feeding America, Nexleaf Analytics, & Malaria No More|url=https://9to5google.com/2014/12/19/google-org-grants-holidays/|website=9to5google.com|accessdate=5 August 2017}}</ref> ||
 
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=== Google Trends ===
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The comparative chart below shows {{w|Google Trends}} data for Malaria (Disease), Dengue fever (Disease), Yellow fever (Disease), Zika fever (Disease) and Chikungunya virus infection (Disease), from January 2014 to December 2014, when the screenshot was taken. Interest is also ranked by country and displayed on world map.<ref>{{cite web |title=Malaria, Dengue fever, Yellow fever, Zika fever and Chikungunya virus infection |url=https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2014-01-01%202014-12-31&q=%2Fm%2F0542n,%2Fm%2F09wsg,%2Fm%2F087z2,%2Fm%2F02vkznh,%2Fm%2F01__7l |website=Google Trends |access-date=30 March 2021}}</ref>
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==See also==
  
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Latest revision as of 12:08, 8 March 2024

This is a timeline of malaria in 2014.

Development summary

Key figures

Global cases 214 million[2]
Global deaths 438,000[2]
Rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) sold 314 million (up from 80 million in 2008)[3]
Global financing for malaria control 2.5 billion[1]
Spending on research and development for malaria US$ 611 million (up from US$ 607 million in 2010)[4]

Full timeline

Date (news release) Category Details Country
January 14 Drug Biologists at University of California, Berkeley develop new ways to genetically modify yeast to produce antimalarial artemisinin, with the purpose of getting the lowest possible price (in China, where most of the crop is grown, the price swung from 200$ to 1,100$ per kilogram).[5] United States
January 14 Vaccine Researchers at Tulane University manage to use Escherichia coli bacteria to inexpensively manufacture protein CHrPfs25, which is critical to the development of a malaria vaccine.[6] United States
January 16 Testing United Kingdom biotech firm develops a handheld device able to detect infectious diseases such as malaria in just 15 minutes. The device is expected to be used by professionals in rural areas of developing nations to test more efficiently.[7] United Kingdom
February 10 Vaccine iBio Inc., a manufacturer of biological products, reports the initiation of a Phase 1 human safety and immunogenicity clinical study of a transmission-blocking malaria vaccine candidate. Clearance was obtained from the FDA.[8][9] United States
February 23 Parasite Two research teams working independently discover that a single protein (AP2-G) acts as the master genetic switch that triggers the development of male and female sexual forms of the malaria parasite.[10] United States, United Kingdom
March 10 Vector Researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Michigan, find that many areas and land masses are experiencing a gradual but noticeable warming, prompting the risk of causing malaria's domain to expand.[11] United Kingdom, United States
March 13 Testing Stanford University professor develops US$50 cents, foldscope paper microscope that can diagnose malaria.[12] United States
April 17 Vaccine Indian scientists report having obtained promising vaccine candidate against malaria, showing 80 to 85% efficacy in mice.[13] India
April 24 Resistance International team manages to identify a genetic marker of artemisinin resistance, after having first created a Plasmodium strain in the laboratory that resists high levels of artemisinin and comparing its DNA with the non–resistant parent strain.[14][15]
April 25 Campaign School children and volunteers from Mangalore, India, launch the Guppy movement campaign, a movement with aims at controlling malaria by using guppy fish to eliminate mosquito larvae.[16][17][18] India
May 22 Vaccine Researchers from Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital and the National Institutes of Health discover protective antibodies in protein PfSEA-1 that is essential for malaria–causing parasites to escape from inside red blood cells. These antibodies, which were found in malaria–resistant children from Tanzania are tested in mice, leading to a significant protection against malaria.[19] [20][21][22][23] United States
June 10 Vector Research team at Imperial College London manages to genetically modify Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes so that the modified mosquitoes produce 95% male offspring. More importantly, this reproductive tendency is found to be inherited by the offspring of the modified mosquitoes.[24][25][26] United Kingdom
June 13 Evaluation Researchers from Imperial College London, Institut Pasteur Paris and other organizations call for new methods to evaluate malaria programs.[27]
June 30 Parasite/Vector Researchers from Pennsylvania State University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology find that malaria Plasmodium parasite in mice alters their body odor to entice mosquitoes.[28][29] United States
July 9 Parasite Researchers at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston claims having evidence that malaria parasite lurks in the bone marrow, flexible tissue in the interior of bones where blood cells are produced.[30][31] United States
July 21 Drug Scientists at University College London discover cheap anti-malarial drug chloroquine could prevent liver cancer.[32][33] United Kingdom
July 17 Parasite Scientists from the Burnet Institute, Deakin University and Monash University in Australia manage to starve the malaria parasite Plasmodium of important proteins essential to its survival, providing a target for the development of new antimalarial drugs.[34][35] Australia
July 21 Testing Researchers at Monash University and the University of Melbourne in Australia make use of advanced military hardware meant for missile defense and turn it into a way to rapidly identify malaria parasites in humans.[36][37] Australia
July 29 Vaccine After conducting advanced trial in several African countries involving 15,000 infants and children, British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline asks the European Medicine's Authority to approve RTS,S vaccine for global use.[38]
August 10 Parasite Biological engineers at the Massachusets Institute of Technology demonstrate that CRISPR genome-editing technique can disrupt a single parasite gene with a success rate of up to 100% — in a matter of weeks. This approach could enable much more rapid malaria gene analysis and boost drug-development efforts.[39] United States
August 24 Testing Scientific paper describes method based on computer vision algorithms similar to those used in facial recognition systems combined with visualization of only the diagnostically most relevant areas as a means for obtaining a significantly improved malaria diagnostic. [40]
September 3 Parasite Professor at the University of Connecticut designs a self-assembling protein nanoparticle that shows to be effective at getting the immune system to attack malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, after it enters the body and before it has a chance to hide and aggressively spread.[41] United States
September 9 Testing Researchers at Singapore–MIT alliance develop an inexpensive device that can accurately diagnose malaria within minutes by using only a droplet of blood.[42] United States
September 10 Control Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco develop an online platform that health workers around the world could use to predict where malaria is likely to be transmitted using data on Google Earth Engine.[43] United States
October 22 Control Researchers on the island of Borneo make use of flying robots to map out areas affected by malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi, which most commonly infects macaque monkeys. The small camera-carrying drone creates maps and digital surface models of the land and vegetation surrounding communities where P. knowlesi has turned up in humans. [44] Malaysia
October 27 Vector Researchers at Johns Hopkins University manage to “vaccinate” mosquitos against the parasite that causes malaria and the virus that causes dengue, by using bacteria Chromobacterium, which prevents the pathogens from effectively invading and colonizing mosquito guts.[45][46] United States
November 3 Funding Microsoft magnate Bill Gates announces his foundation will give away $500 million during 2014 to combat diseases like malaria on top of the $50 million it already committed to fighting Ebola.[47] United States
November 6 Parasite Infections with the parasite Plasmodium knowlesi show increase in the Malaysian states of Sarawak and Sabah on the island of Borneo. Ther parasite, which is carried by long-tailed and pig-tailed macaques, appears to be jumping to people as a result of deforestation.[48][49][50] Malaysia
December 4 Symptom Researchers at New York University School of Medicine find that blood pressure build-up from white blood cells may cause cerebral malaria death.[51][52] United States
December 9 Parasite Researchers at the University of Basel and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute develop so-called nanomimics of host cell membranes that trick parasites, leading to the possibility of novel treatment and vaccination strategies in the fight against malaria and other infectious diseases.[53][54] Switzerland
December 9 Report The World Health Organisation publishes its annual World Malaria Report, communicating a decrease in worldwide malaria mortality by 47% Between 2000-13. The rate of decrease in Africa –where 90% of malaria occurs– is reported at 54%.[55]
December 11 Resistance Researchers at Nanyang Technological University report having discovered exactly how the malaria parasite is developing resistance towards the most important front-line drugs used to treat the disease, after having analyzed 1,000 malaria samples taken from patients in the area of the Greater Mekong Subregion.[56] Singapore
December 19 Funding Google.org, the charitable arm of Google, announces that it's giving a $600,000 grant to Malaria No More to embark on a potentially transformative data mining project in Nigeria. The grant is part of a pot of $15 million that Google.org is giving out to organizations that use technology to solve the world's biggest problems. In Africa, where 1 billion mobile phone subscriptions are predicted by 2015, it is expected that public health researchers could have one billion ways to communicate with—and collect data from—the people who are most at risk of catching malaria, a disease that has traditionally been extremely difficult to track.[57][58][59]

Visual data

Google Trends

The comparative chart below shows Google Trends data for Malaria (Disease), Dengue fever (Disease), Yellow fever (Disease), Zika fever (Disease) and Chikungunya virus infection (Disease), from January 2014 to December 2014, when the screenshot was taken. Interest is also ranked by country and displayed on world map.[60]

Malaria, Dengue fever, Yellow fever, Zika fever and Chikungunya virus infection gt.png

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "WORLD MALARIA REPORT 2015" (PDF). who.int. Retrieved 15 July 2017. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Malaria: Mosquitoes breed disaster in Burundi". worldvision.org. Retrieved 21 July 2017. 
  3. ↑ "Fact Sheet: World Malaria Report 2015". who.int. Retrieved 21 July 2017. 
  4. ↑ "WORLD MALARIA REPORT" (PDF). who.int. Retrieved 13 July 2017. 
  5. ↑ "Biologists Modify Yeast to Produce Malaria Drug". discovermagazine.com. Retrieved 5 July 2017. 
  6. ↑ Brannon-Tulane, Keith. "E. coli may offer cheap way to create a malaria vaccine". futurity.org. Retrieved 5 July 2017. 
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