For years, climate scientists have cautioned that the warming world could create conditions where animals, insects and other creatures would establish themselves in places they had not been found ...

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 earn ...

Every year, malaria kills more than 600,000 people worldwide. Most of them are children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. But the disease isn’t confined to poor, rural areas – it’s a global threat that ...

SEATTLE/LONDON (Reuters) - An experimental vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline halved the risk of African children getting malaria in a major clinical trial, making it likely to become the world's first shot ...

Here’s an itchy fact: Hungry female mosquitoes are often called “flying syringes.” This tiny tormentor has an exceptional sense of smell; after they sniff out a blood meal, they can triple their ...

Amy Bei (left), a professor of epidemiology at Yale University, and her team of malaria researchers in Kedougou, Senegal. Credit: Courtesy of Amy Bei Amy Bei, a professor of epidemiology at Yale ...

New research on avian malaria, which has decimated Hawaii's beloved birds, explains how non-native birds play a key role in ...

Scientists have long dreamed of quashing mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, which alone kills more than 608,000 people per year. Their inventions – notably insecticide-treated bed nets – have ...

A new clinical trial from Scripps Research in La Jolla aims to make significant gains in the global fight against malaria by making a drug that has been around since the 1970s last longer. Working ...

Novartis AG’s experimental malaria drug worked better than existing treatments and showed promise against drug-resistant strains in a study, a potential advance in the fight against the mosquito-borne ...