A fungal infection solution could help eliminate up to 86% of malaria-carrying mosquitoes, offering a powerful new tool in ...

Novartis plans to seek quick regulatory approvals from health authorities for the drug, known as GanLum, which would be the ...

Genome variation data on more than 7,000 malaria parasites from 28 endemic countries is released today. It has been produced by MalariaGEN, a data-sharing network of groups around the world who are ...

A groundbreaking study has revealed that the mass administration of ivermectin—a drug once known for treating river blindness and scabies—can significantly reduce malaria transmission when used in ...

Aedes aegypti, a common vector of dengue fever and yellow fever. Image by Muhammad Mahdi Karim. — GNU License, V1.2 Aedes aegypti, a common vector of dengue fever and yellow fever. Image by Muhammad ...

A malaria vaccine developed by the University of Oxford proved to be 77% effective in early clinical trials, suggesting it could be a possible breakthrough in the fight against the one of the world's ...

Few infectious diseases can rival malaria's ability to kill and cripple. Each year the disease causes hundreds of millions of people to be sickened and more than a million — mostly African children ...

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Tracey Lamb, PhD, professor of pathology, is the University of Utah’s first National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Jefferson Science Fellow. In this role, she will spend time with ...

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 ...

The number of malaria cases rose again in 2022, propelled by flooding and warmer weather in areas once free of the illness. By Stephanie Nolen Stephanie Nolen has traveled the world reporting on the ...

The Malaria Consortium, an international non-profit organisation, has said that a national roll out of the perennial malaria chemoprevention (PMC) intervention could reduce severe malaria cases among ...