Native Hawaiian honeycreeper birds are being wiped out by avian malaria. Scientists think they can battle the problem by ...

Drones are being used in Hawaii to drop biodegradable pods containing 1,000 male mosquitoes each. These non-biting mosquitoes ...

Deaths from the mosquito-borne illness malaria disproportionately affect children under the age of 5—more than 1,200 children ...

"The mosquito is one of the deadliest animals on the planet," declared two South African researchers in a recent Nature article. This tiny insect is responsible for spreading malaria, a disease that ...

Researchers from the University of South Florida have used artificial intelligence and citizen science to identify what may ...

In an experiment in Europe, scientists used mosquitoes as flying needles to deliver a "vaccine" of live malaria parasites through their bites. The results surprised scientists: Everyone in the vaccine ...

Distance can lull us into thinking malaria is someone else’s problem. But it isn’t. Its ripple effects are felt far beyond ...

IN TODAY’S MEDICAL ALERT, IT IS WORLD MOSQUITO DAY. THE INSECTS AREN’T JUST ANNOYING. THEY KILL MORE HUMANS THAN ANY OTHER CREATURE IN THE WORLD BY INFECTING THEM WITH DISEASES LIKE MALARIA AND DENGUE ...

STUDY. THIS INSECTARY AT THE BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH IS ONE OF THE LARGEST IN THE UNITED STATES, SO THE ROUND ONES YOU SEE, CHRISTOPHER GAZETO IS FROM UGANDA, AFRICA. MALARIA IS ONE OF OUR ...

As an American medical resident in a global health program in Uganda 12 years ago, Dr. Ross Boyce saw the devastating toll of ...

A malaria research center in Mutare, Zimbabwe helps test insecticide resistance. The critical work almost ended with USAID ...