How to Use malaria in a Sentence

malaria

noun
  • Does that mean there are forms of malaria that can’t be cured?
    — Washington Post, 30 July 2019
  • 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
  • But when the chief’s son fell ill with malaria, Cobb used atabrine, a modern medicine, to heal him.
    — Michael Lapointe, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
  • Roughly 2,800 years ago, high in the Himalayas, a man died of malaria.
    — Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2024
  • As cholera, dengue, and malaria spread, that will only get worse.
    — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Giving a speech about malaria to a room full of experts.
    — Melinda Gates, Teen Vogue, 31 May 2019
  • 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
  • The idea that Bill Gates is the one guy who should be out there curing malaria is ludicrous to me.
    — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 9 July 2019
  • 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
  • About 2,000 cases of malaria are observed in the United States each year.
    — Haley Weiss, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2019
  • At first, he was treated for malaria and returned home.
    — David McKenzie, CNN, 26 May 2018
  • The drug, first created in the 1940s, has been used to treat and prevent malaria, arthritis, and lupus.
    — Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2020
  • It’s because people used to plant tons of them in areas with malaria.
    — Jonas Eika, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
  • How lucky my father was to have survived a World War, combat, and malaria?
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • Already, a lack of vaccines has led to the resurgence of preventable diseases like malaria and measles.
    — Ciara Nugent, Time, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Traveling to a country with high rates of malaria can put you and others at risk.
    — Steffini Stalos, Verywell Health, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Diseases such as measles and malaria are spreading fast.
    — Ryan Dube, WSJ, 21 May 2018
  • What about everything that Bill Gates has done on malaria?
    — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 9 July 2019
  • In other cases, malaria will erupt into the blood much faster.
    — oregonlive, 25 Jan. 2020
  • Austin thinks that might be why lizards evolved to be green-blooded because malaria is an issue for New Guinea and lizards.
    — Fox News, 16 May 2018
  • Scientists say that the trick to controlling the spread of malaria is to curb mosquito populations.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The situation is particularly worrisome, Too says, because the region is in its rainy season, which usually starts in March and lasts through May, bringing a spike in diseases like malaria and diarrhea.
    — Marc Silver, NPR, 25 Apr. 2025

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