Aug. 22, 2024 — While a mosquito bite is often no more than a temporary bother, in many parts of the world it can be scary. One mosquito species, Aedes aegypti, spreads the viruses that cause ...

The world could be free of malaria - one of the oldest and deadliest diseases to affect humanity - within a generation, a major report says. Each year there are still more than 200 million cases ...

Scientists are researching ways of preventing mosquitoes spreading malaria at a lab in Spain Scientists have found a naturally occurring strain of bacteria which can help stop the transmission of ...

The emergence of drug-resistant parasites thwarts efforts to control human malaria. How can we understand the mechanism of drug-resistance evolution and build a strategy to delay it? So far ...

Cerebral malaria (CM) is a complex of syndromes relating to the presence of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes sequestering in the brain microvasculature. The mechanisms of pathology are ...

In other regions, the threat of malaria is a more constant issue even as vaccines continue to roll out. However, some new research on how they mate may help develop better improved techniques for ...

Why? The answer is that these drugs have a range of effects on people, so what they do for malaria is not necessarily the same as what they do for lupus. And yet, there are similarities. Malaria is ...

In October 2007, Bill and Melinda Gates announced the commitment of their foundation to the eradication of malaria. Their call to action has been endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO ...

1 Malaria, the world's most important and deadly tropical mosquito-borne parasitic disease, kills approximately 1 million people and afflicts as many as 1 billion people in 109 countries ...

Paul Hunt is the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to the highest attainable standard of health. He is a Professor at the Department of Law, University of Essex, United Kingdom, and Adjunct ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Unica Cardoso, 35, center in blue-purple headwrap, waits in line for ...

The months of September to May are an unfortunate season in South Africa: malaria season. The mosquito-borne disease is found in the north-eastern districts of KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and ...