With victims numbering in the millions, malaria is an infectious disease caused by the bite of a mosquito carrying the malaria parasite. After penetrating the skin, the pathogen moves with helical ...

There are more clinical phenotypes of severe malaria than those defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), according to a study led by ISGlobal. The results indicate that heart failure can be a ...

As a medical geographer who studies emerging pathogens and lives in Florida, I’ve noticed an interesting pattern throughout the past several months: more calls from journalists. Often, they will tell ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday issued approval to the world's first vaccine that can fight malaria, a disease that kills about 500,000 people worldwide each year. The WHO issued a ...

An archival mosquito collected by G.E. Bohart in Virginia in 1943 is featured in this Creative Commons image from the California Academy of Sciences. A group of researchers is calling on colleagues ...

LMU parasitologists have shown how Toxoplasma recycles its cell envelope – and revealed an important difference to the malaria pathogen. According to estimates, about a third of the world’s population ...

A child waits with her mother to receive health services at the Maluku General Reference Hospital in Maluku, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The country has the second highest malaria burden in the ...

How old is malaria? Researchers used to think it was two or three thousand years old at most — a modern disease that appeared long after most humans gave up the nomadic hunting lifestyle and formed ...