SEATTLE, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Eradicating malaria is not a vague, unrealistic aspiration but a tough, ambitious goal that can be reached within the next few decades, the billionaire philanthropist Bill ...

For the last 15 years, Austin Burt and Andrea Crisanti have worked tirelessly to genetically engineer the perfect mosquitoes. The two scientists are at the most radical end of a spectrum of ...

A health worker wearing protective equipment takes a blood sample from a patient at a ward for patients suspected of having the Ebola virus, at Rokupa Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone, October 6, 2014 ...

When you have become immune to malaria after having contracted the disease, it seems that the body uses a more efficient protection than if you have been vaccinated against the deadly disease. The ...

Both sickle cell disease (SCD) and malaria are potentially dangerous conditions that affect red blood cells (RBCs). While certain forms of SCD may increase the risk of severe complications, one type ...

On Wednesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended a broad rollout for a malaria vaccine after a pilot test showed that it was safe and could be effectively deployed in rural settings.

Climate change is defined as a statistically significant variation in either the mean state of the climate or in its variability, persisting for an extended period -- typically decades or longer -- ...

Globally, there were 249 million cases of malaria in 2022. And in that same year, there were over 608,000 malaria deaths. A vast majority of these cases occurred in the WHO African region. Malaria has ...