Mosquitoes kill more people each year than any other animal. In 2023, the blood-sucking insects infected a reported 263 ...

A new study reports on a novel way to short-circuit the parasite that spreads the disease so people wouldn’t get infected ...

A team of scientists, including researchers at UCSD, have developed a gene-editing method to block mosquitoes from spreading ...

Ivermectin administered to the whole population significantly reduces malaria transmission, offering new hope in the fight ...

Mosquitoes kill more people each year than any other animal. In 2023, the blood-sucking insects infected a reported 263 million people with malaria, leading to nearly 600,000 deaths, 80% of which were ...

Mosquitoes engineered to swap out an amino acid in a key protein were resistant to malaria infection, preventing them from transmitting the disease.

Mosquitoes are highly visual hunters when it comes to finding a human to bite. This means movement and dark clothing colors like black, navy and red can stand out to a mosquito. Research has shown ...

We reveal how malaria-decimated British forces in the southern colonies during the Revolutionary War—while local troops ...

For thousands of years malaria was a mysterious illness affecting people across the globe. Even the name of the disease, ‘malaria’, derived from two Italian words meaning ‘bad air’, highlights the ...

Tropical cyclones in Madagascar lead to sharp spikes in malaria infections – particularly in children – due to interruptions ...