For the first time in 20 years, nine cases of locally acquired malaria have occurred this summer in the United States: seven in Florida, one in Texas, and one in Maryland. The feverish illness is ...

The conservative New England Journal of Medicine recently jumped on “the erroneous conception that malaria can be eradicated by means of a five-day treatment with the synthetic drug, atabrine.” ...

Researchers have chanced upon a bacteria naturally present in the gut of mosquitoes that inhibits the growth of a parasite that causes the deadliest form of malaria. Unlikely to produce resistance, ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institute report they have observed how the immune system acts to protect the body after a malaria infection. Their findings can help in the development of more effective ...

Researchers at Weill Cornell recently published a study in Nature Microbiology that highlights the newly discovered intricacies of the malaria transmission cycle. The results of their study could have ...

Working with an international team of researchers, an ASU professor is researching the origins of malaria to better treat it today. School of Life Sciences professor Ananias Escalante is working with ...

The malaria parasite is still killing almost half a million people every year. A project has now identified a gene that holds out the prospect of a safe, effective live vaccine. The study is published ...

Malaria is perhaps the most important parasitic disease worldwide, is caused the protozoan Plasmodium—P. falciparum causes the severest form of the human disease—and is responsible for half a billion ...