How to Use malaria in a Sentence

malaria

noun
Definition of malarianext
  • The world is at a defining moment in the fight against malaria.
    — Peter Sands, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Most malaria deaths are in children under the age of 5.
    — Brady Dennis, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Roughly 2,800 years ago, high in the Himalayas, a man died of malaria.
    — Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2024
  • That has contributed to the rebound of malaria in many places.
    — Byscience News Staff, science.org, 23 Mar. 2023
  • That's how much malaria has been in the population of West Africa, it's been there that long.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2022
  • His six-year-old twins also fell ill with malaria this year.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 24 May 2024
  • Nine out of 10 malaria victims live in Africa, most of them children under the age of five.
    — David A. Taylor, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2021
  • In Africa, climate change has led to more hunger, malaria, dengue fever and flooding, Mr. Taalas said.
    — Jenny Gross, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Researchers had been searching for a malaria vaccine since the late 1960s.
    — Pratik Pawar, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2022
  • But Nets, a malaria awareness and fundraising campaign by the UN.
    — Amanda Tarlton, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2020
  • It’s because people used to plant tons of them in areas with malaria.
    — Jonas Eika, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
  • In hunting for a weapon against malaria, Lawrence Wang found an antibody that’s now being put to the test.
    — STAT, 14 Nov. 2022
  • But getting to a malaria-free world will require more than promising tools.
    — Apoorva Mandavilli Kang-Chun Cheng, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
  • There are also vaccines on the horizon for diseases such as dengue and malaria.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 29 June 2023
  • But the vaccine was given at the start of the rainy season, which lasts less than half the year and is when almost all malaria cases occur.
    — Bygretchen Vogel, science.org, 3 Nov. 2022
  • China launched a program to identify new malaria drugs in the late 1960s.
    — Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 29 June 2021
  • The World Health Organization says that children under the age of 5 make up 80% of the malaria deaths in the region.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 22 July 2024
  • At the mission station and in their forest settlements, many grew sick and died from flu and malaria.
    — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The reasoning is that malaria can be life-threatening and is therefore worth the risk of side effects.
    — Joe Graedon and Teresa Graedon, oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The new vaccine, called Mosquirix, helps the immune system fight off a malaria pathogen common in Africa.
    — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Quinine is, after all, a medicine used to treat malaria, according to the Mayo Clinic.
    — Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 20 July 2022
  • Recall that there are not one but two new vaccines available for malaria.
    — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 6 July 2024
  • At the time, Langford moved to the area with his family to regain his health after battling malaria.
    — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 22 Dec. 2022
  • An outbreak of malaria has hit Ethiopia’s fourth-most populous city, Dire Dawa.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov. 2022
  • It's been decades since U.S. health authorities have had malaria on their radar.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • China is the 40th country—and by far the most populous one—to be certified malaria-free.
    — Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 29 June 2021
  • Four things get you 85 percent of those deaths: malaria, pneumonia, diarrhea, and then a bunch of things that can kill you in your first 30 days.
    — Dylan Scott, Vox, 19 Sep. 2024
  • At the regional hospital, the wards are packed — with malaria patients.
    — Stephanie Nolen, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2022
  • And while many of these poorer countries have made great strides against infectious diseases, threats from the likes of malaria or tuberculosis remain high.
    — Jess Craig, Vox, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The initial challenge in identifying the Marburg cases was the similarity of its symptoms to those of malaria, a common disease in the region.
    — Paul Adepoju, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2024

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