Malaria

MIAMI — In the age-old war of human versus mosquitoes, the bugs have been winning. At least 700,000 ...

The rollout of malaria vaccines in Africa – the world's first routine immunization program against t...

In the 1970's and '80's, Aedes albopictus mosquitoes came to the U.S. through the used tire trade. T...

About a decade ago, a new kind of mosquito began showing up in African cities. Native to Asia, Anoph...

Say you want to dress up as the world's scariest animal this Halloween. You don't need fangs, claws ...

"As a malaria researcher," says WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, "I used to dream of...

The soft footfalls of thousands of moccasins along unpaved rural roads across Bangladesh could be co...

Mosquitoes carry malaria, which kills hundreds of thousands of people each year. Now some researcher...

On April 17, 2023, Nigeria approved a promising new malaria vaccine. It's called R21, and in early t...

In the 1950s, the U.S. declared that it had wiped out malaria. As NPR reported a few years ago, this...

Five cases of the mosquito-borne infection malaria have been detected in the United States in the pa...

Early this year, a startling report came out of the city of Dire Dawa, a transportation hub in easte...

A new study published in Thursday's edition of Cell reports that a mosquito's sense of smell is more...