LONDON (AP) — Malaria likely killed many more people than usual in the West African nation of Guinea during last year’s Ebola outbreak, a new study suggests, as tens of thousands with potential signs ...

The fever experienced by people with malaria exposes parasites to high temperatures within blood cells. This heat can lead to ...

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 ...

Devices made with cheap strips of paper have outperformed two other testing methods in detecting malaria infection in asymptomatic people in Ghana—a diagnostic advance that could accelerate efforts to ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Mosquitos infect up to 263 million people yearly with malaria and efforts to reduce their populations have stalled as late. That's because ...

Global Fund Executive Director Peter Sands (right) speaks with community health worker Amélie Tachifo during a visit to a family affected by malaria in Soa, 20 kilometers north of Cameroon's capital ...

MIGORI, Kenya (AP) — As the coffin bearing the body of Rosebella Awuor was lowered into the grave, heart-wrenching sobs from mourners filled the air. Her sister Winnie Akinyi, the guardian to Awuor's ...

A 15-year study suggests that long-term malaria control may depend as much on protecting environments as it does on ...

Malaria mosquitoes prefer to feed -- and feed more -- on blood from people infected with malaria. Researchers from Stockholm University, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and KTH Royal ...

Mosquitoes that readily transmit malarial parasites carry the FREP1 amino acid known as L224 (red dots inside mosquitoes and marked with “L”). The newly developed system uses an allelic gene drive ...

Patients often present convinced they have malaria, while healthcare providers have historically treated fever as malaria ...

Roger Casupang was working in a coastal clinic on the north side of Papua New Guinea, an island nation of 9 million in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, when a pregnant woman burst into his facility.