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A novel way to prevent the spread of malaria – a potentially life-threatening disease transmitted through bites from mosquitoes infected by a parasite – could soon be realized, thanks to scientists at ...

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 ...

In 2023, an outbreak of malaria happened in four states, but these weren’t the usual infections seen in people who traveled internationally, these infections were spread by local mosquitoes. Now a new ...

In a new paper, published in PLOS Biology, a team of scientists at the university, along with collaborators across the globe, show how they have uncovered key regulators of how malaria parasites ...

Anopheles funestus, a malaria-transmitting mosquito. [James Gathany, Dr. Frank Collins, University of Notre Dame, courtesy of CDC] Over 247 million cases and 619,000 deaths of malaria were reported in ...

“We thought we had defeated malaria,” says Dr. Emily Landon, executive medical director of Infection Prevention and Control at UChicago Medicine. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory ...

A groundbreaking study combined novel experimental data within an innovative modeling framework to examine how temperature might affect transmission risk of malaria in different environments in Africa ...

A New Jersey resident has developed a case of malaria without having traveled internationally, potentially making it the first locally transmitted case in decades, state health officials say. The ...

Researchers from the LSTM based Cochrane Infectious Disease Group (CIDG) explored whether community administration of ivermectin influences malaria transmission. Malaria still kills millions.

An adult female Anopheles mosquito bites a human body. Health officials are investigating a case of possibly locally acquired malaria in New Jersey, just weeks after a health department in Washington ...