Malaria is often considered a tropical disease, but data hidden in historical human remains has shed new light on the parasite's world travels. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

More than half a million people, the vast majority being children under the age of 5, die annually due to malaria, with ...

Scientists have developed a new vaccination strategy for malaria — boosting immunity through bites from mosquitoes carrying a genetically engineered version of the parasite that causes malaria. In a ...

IN TODAY’S MEDICAL ALERT, IT IS WORLD MOSQUITO DAY. THE INSECTS AREN’T JUST ANNOYING. THEY KILL MORE HUMANS THAN ANY OTHER CREATURE IN THE WORLD BY INFECTING THEM WITH DISEASES LIKE MALARIA AND DENGUE ...

Researchers have created a "mosquito STD" in an effort to stop the pesky pests from spreading malaria to humans.A team of researchers that included a University of Maryland entomologist came up with a ...

Malaria researchers have just made a breakthrough that could transform how we fight one of the world's deadliest diseases. Scientists at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have mapped the ...

A health worker shows a malaria rapid test kit after collecting blood sample from a resident during a drive to prevent the spread of mosquito-borne diseases in Ahmedabad, India, October 26, 2018.

Scientists may have found a solution to stop the spread of malaria: poisoning mosquitoes with human blood. New research suggests that the mosquito-borne malady can be curbed by getting the insects to ...

Early care-seeking: Fever with body aches, severe headache, bleeding or breathlessness requires immediate medical attention, early detection reduces complications for both malaria and dengue. NVBDCP ...

Malaria, particularly in its severe forms, remains a global health and economic burden. It causes the deaths of more than 600,000 people every year – most of them African children under five. In a new ...

An insistent buzzing at sunset followed by itchy, spotted legs. Here in Denmark, mosquitoes are mostly an annoying—but generally harmless—nuisance. That is far from the case in many parts of the world ...