A new, comprehensive map of all the genes essential for blood infections in Plasmodium knowlesi (P. knowlesi), a parasite ...

Humans have an exceptional ability to deal with viruses. In most cases, your immune system is able to fight an infection. On ...

Genetic alterations may help mosquitoes adjust to climate change, shifting the distribution of mosquito-borne disease in a ...

Despite the constant presence of mosquitoes, the risk of disease transmission fluctuates throughout the year between high and low risk months.

Scientists made an incredible discovery not only treats malaria but takes down even the most drug-resistant parasites while ...

People are to be sent from Britain to the Netherlands to be deliberately infected with a form of malaria so scientists can study its ... a person is initially infected through the bite of a mosquito.

A student killed herself after anti-malaria tablets left her severely depressed ... insisting that his daughter would never have taken her own life if it had not been for the side-effects of ...

Three of the four stages of the mosquito life cycle take place in water – eggs ... overtaking even malaria. In its early years, the programme was very effective. Dr Ooi said: “Between 1975 ...

An elderly Townsville man has been hospitalised with dengue fever, marking the region's first breakthrough case of the mosquito-borne virus in five years. There have been just four cases of ...

SYDNEY (AFP-Jiji) — Genetically engineered mosquitoes with toxic semen could be a new weapon ... a common laboratory species favored for its short two-week life cycle. Female flies that bred with ...