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.

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 ...

Switzerland’s medical products authority has granted the first approval for a malaria medicine designed for small infants ...

Since mosquitoes carry malaria, prevention has long focused on preventing mosquito bites, such as with nets, and controlling mosquito populations with insecticides and other measures. Researchers are ...