In a new study published in Nature, scientists have successfully developed genetically modified mosquitoes in Tanzania that block the transmission of malaria. The team includes researchers from the ...

Deaths linked to malaria last year rose last year, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, warning also of an increase in cases and resistance to current treatment. There were some 282 million ...

A child is vaccinated against malaria on September 13, 2019 in Ndhiwa, Homabaya County, Western Kenya during the launch of a malaria vaccine in Kenya. The vaccine (Mosquirix) is the world's first ...

Every cell of the deadly Plasmodium falciparum parasite, the organism that causes malaria, contains a tiny compartment full of microscopic iron crystals. As long as the parasite is alive, the crystals ...

After two decades, malaria made an unexpected return to the United States, catching health officials off guard and revealing how a warming world can breathe new life into old threats. Between May and ...

US has funded health workers in remote African villages Trump cuts have slashed number of workers, supply of drugs Cameroon officials report spike in malaria deaths True picture hard to see as US cuts ...

New Jersey may be dealing with its first case of malaria in more than three decades — and it came from a local mosquito, not one lurking in the tropics, officials said this week. The malaria-stricken ...

Local health officials are still investigating how a Pierce County woman who hadn’t traveled recently might have contracted malaria — but however it happened, the situation involved an “unusual ...

A novel way to prevent the spread of malaria – a potentially life-threatening disease transmitted through bites from mosquitoes infected by a parasite – could soon be realized, thanks to scientists at ...

Fortunate Mokoena receives funding from the Science for Africa Foundation (SFA) as part of the second Grand Challenges Africa grantees cohort by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ...

Ivermectin administered to the whole population significantly reduces malaria transmission, offering new hope in the fight against the disease. The BOHEMIA trial, the largest study on ivermectin for ...