Researchers have created a "mosquito STD" in an effort to stop the pesky pests from spreading malaria to humans.

Jeremy Herren, who studies malaria at the Nairobi-based International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, said there is evidence that warming temperatures influence where mosquito populations ...

He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1902 for his work on malaria and he was knighted in 1911. In 1926, the Ross Institute and Hospital of Tropical Diseases and Hygiene was established ...

Malaria is at least 5,500 years old, the study found and might even be much older, the researchers say. “We still haven't really figured out where and when it exactly originated,” Johannes ...

Thomas Breuer, Chief Global Health Officer at global biopharma company GSK, is proud to be working at the forefront of malaria prevention and treatment. After all, through partnerships ...

There are two more cases of locally acquired malaria in Sarasota County, according to the Florida Department of Health, bringing the total number of cases to six in the state. At the end of June ...

Malaria is often considered a tropical disease, but data hidden in historical human remains has shed new light on the parasite's world travels. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

At least eight cases of locally acquired malaria have been reported in the U.S. over the past two months, the first time the disease has had a local spread in 20 years. A public health alert was ...

An 1878 trademark registration for Miasmine, a doubtless ineffective anti-malaria medicine. Until about 1900, scientists were not sure what caused malaria. In the 19th century, the District of ...

The number of malaria cases rose again in 2022, propelled by flooding and warmer weather in areas once free of the illness. By Stephanie Nolen Stephanie Nolen has traveled the world reporting on ...