Malaria prevention in pregnant populations centres on strategies to reduce maternal parasitaemia and adverse birth outcomes such as low birth weight, preterm delivery and stillbirth. The mainstay of ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Countries are reporting a rise in imported malaria cases and travellers are reminded about the importance of taking appropriate precautions and implementing prevention tactics ...

Malaria is caused by a single-celled parasite of the genus Plasmodium. The parasite is transmitted to humans most commonly through mosquito bites. The malaria parasites enter the bloodstream and ...

University of the Witwatersrand - Edson Mwebesa, Fellow at the Wits-based Sub-Saharan Africa Advanced Consortium for Biostatistics (SSACAB), knows children who died from late-diagnosed malaria. His ...

Researchers from India and the UK discovered that the Plasmodium enzyme Ark1 acts as a crucial switch for cell division, ...

The fight against malaria is a test of human intelligence against mosquitoes — and so far, our minuscule winged enemy is winning. But new results shared this week show substantial improvements in one ...

Mosquitoes are one of the deadliest animals on Earth because they transmit diseases including malaria, which is thought to be responsible for the deaths of over 600,000 people every year. Many of them ...

Gwanak-gu, led by District Mayor Park Jun-hee, is significantly stepping up mosquito control and public awareness efforts ...

Contracting malaria due to mosquito bites, especially during the monsoons isn’t very uncommon. But letting that malaria take ...

Malaria is the deadliest climate-sensitive infectious disease. Yet researchers and public health officials have long argued ...