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While very much in its infancy, the results could open the door to a new way to fight malaria.
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While very much in its infancy, the results could open the door to a new way to fight malaria.
Vivax malaria is transmitted rapidly from person to person by mosquitoes; a single infection can result in repeated disease episodes.
Nearly half a million children in the African region die every year from the disease, which is caused by a parasite carried by mosquitoes.
Extreme weather events in Malawi and Pakistan have driven “very sharp” rises in malaria infections and deaths, a global health chief said ahead of...
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will hold a donor conference Wednesday in New York.
Doctors in a rural Sierra Leone hospital may be accustomed to treating severely ill infants, but they recently admitted one of the worst cases...
Research undertaken at Virgina Tech has demonstrated how the alteration of a single gene can convert female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes into fertile male mosquitoes....
Malaria has killed more than 1,800 people in Burundi this year, the UN’s humanitarian agency says, a death toll rivalling a deadly Ebola outbreak...
The sweltering heat of the Venezuelan forest makes no difference to Jose Gregorio, who trembles with a cold chill. “I have pain everywhere, fever,”...
The new research comes from the University of Maryland and the research finding have been described as significant in terms of future malaria control...