?Monkey malaria? in Malaysia: Most malaria hospitalizations due to Plasmodium knowlesi

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?Monkey malaria? in Malaysia: Most malaria hospitalizations due to Plasmodium knowlesi
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After warning us in 2011 about a huge reservoir of Plasmodium knowlesi in the monkeys and how the increasing human populations and deforestation could shift the disease to humans, Director of the Malaria Research Centre at University of Malaysia, Sarawak, Balbir Singh now reports 3 years later that sixty-eight percent of malaria hospitalizations in Malaysia last year were caused by the malaria species found in macaques...

 

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Re: ?Monkey malaria? in Malaysia: Most malaria hospitalizations due to Plasmodium knowlesi

Monkey malaria on the rise among humans in Malaysia

18/11/14

- On Malaysian Borneo, 68 per cent of malaria cases are from monkey malaria

- Deforestation may have pushed monkeys closer to humans

- The mosquitoes that transmit the disease live outside, making it hard to prevent

Once only monkeys were suffering ? now people are getting sick too. Monkey malaria, which is three times more severe than other forms of malaria, now accounts for two-thirds of human malaria cases in Malaysian Borneo, says Balbir Singh, director of the Malaria Research Centre at the University of Malaysia in Sarawak.

Other South-East Asian countries such as Cambodia and Thailand are seeing infections too. Signs that monkey malaria may now be jumping directly between humans could lead to a further spike in cases, adds Singh.

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