Today, Malaria is considered a tropical disease, but it wasn’t always that way. Around the 1900s, parts of the United States were awash with Malaria—especially in the South and parts of the Eastern ...

Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live and when groups stayed apart. By tracing ancient mosquito habitats, ...

For tens of thousands of years, where humans have chosen to live has long been shaped by climate and the landscape. That's why there are so few of us clinging to the crags of Mount Everest or ...

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered how Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria when transmitted through a mosquito bite, can hide from the body’s immune system, ...

(CNN) — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert this week to clinicians that there are locally acquired cases of malaria in Florida and Texas, with four cases identified in ...

or decades, sub-Saharan Africa has waged a determined battle against malaria—one of the world’s deadliest and most persistent public health threats. Despite substantial progress, a stubborn challenge ...