Every year on April 25, World Malaria Day reminds us of a disease that, while now largely preventable and treatable, once claimed millions of lives, particularly in India. Between 1800 and 1921 alone, ...

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 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Mosquitos infect up to 263 million people yearly with malaria and efforts to reduce their populations have stalled as late. That's because ...

A relatively new class of insecticide that can be disseminated on something the size of a sheet of paper offers protection for up to a year against mosquitoes that spread malaria, as well as dengue, ...

Ancient DNA recovered from human skeletons has begun to reveal the history of how malaria spread around the globe, including how the disease first reached the Americas. The history of humankind is ...

Researchers have discovered how a parasite that causes malaria when transmitted through a mosquito bite can hide from the body's immune system, sometimes for years. It turns out that the parasite, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — The United States has seen ...

A surge in malaria cases in Zimbabwe is exposing fragile health systems and growing treatment shortages in rural areas.

Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live ...

Artist reconstruction of the life of CHO001, a long-distance trader analyzed in this study who suffered from malaria and was buried at the site of Chokhopani, Nepal, ca 800 BCE. The foreground depicts ...

Credit: Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project) A new study led by a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researcher has found that ...