Every year on 25 April, World Malaria Day is observed to raise awareness about one of the deadliest yet preventable diseases. As per the World Health Organization (WHO), there were 263 million malaria ...

World Malaria Day is observed every year on April 25 with the aim of spreading awareness about malaria disease. The day also aims to raise awareness about diseases and their prevention in the world.

Researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary history and global spread of malaria over the past 5,500 years, identifying trade, warfare, and colonialism as major catalysts for its dispersal.

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

A team at Portland State University is leading research on a new drug showing promise to treat one of the deadliest diseases ...

In the 1950s, the U.S. declared that it had wiped out malaria. As NPR reported a few years ago, this public health milestone was achieved "through the use of insecticides, drainage ditches and the ...

The United States eliminated malaria in the 1950s, but that doesn't mean this parasitic disease is gone for good, warns a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC.) The ...

For the first time in 20 years, five people have picked up malaria on U.S. soil. On June 26, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory, announcing that over the last ...