The major cause of malaria is the bite from an infected mosquito. Malaria is a life-threatening illness common in Africa and parts of Asia. When a mosquito is infected by plasmodium parasites, and you ...

New Delhi: Mosquito-borne illnesses continue to affect large populations, especially during warmer months when infections rise sharply. Among the most common are malaria and dengue, two diseases that ...

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Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by a parasite that spreads from bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. If left untreated in humans, malaria can cause severe symptoms, health ...

Researchers have identified a type of chemical compound that, when applied to insecticide-treated bed nets, appears to kill the malaria-causing parasite in mosquitoes. Published today in the journal ...

Malaria remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths every year, most of ...

Hundreds of people have tested positive for malaria in northwest Congo as health officials try to understand what may be behind a surge of illnesses that has surpassed 1,000 cases and killed at least ...

The fever experienced by people with malaria exposes parasites to high temperatures within blood cells. This heat can lead to ...