Malaria was eradicated in the U.S. by 1951, so Americans can be forgiven for not giving the disease much thought. But the mosquito-borne scourge is responsible for the deaths of nearly a million ...

Researchers who have studied malaria for decades, hoping to find a cure, long thought they’d identified a type of blood that seemed to defend against the disease. But a new study published in Cell ...

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 ...

Tampa (BLOOM) – Malaria, a deadly disease transmitted by female anopheline mosquitoes, has long been a global health concern. While cases of malaria in the United States are typically associated with ...

Abdoulaye Diabate faced a life-threatening bout of malaria when he was just five years old. Diabate narrowly survived the mosquito-borne disease, but cousins ages three and four were not as fortunate.

Scientists have found that a special component in some people's blood provides them with natural protection against malaria.

Understanding how the human immune system fights Plasmodium vivax paves the way for the first effective vaccine against it.

Malaria, a disease as old as time, continues to be a health concern, especially in Nigeria. However, did you know that your blood type might influence your susceptibility to this mosquito-borne ...

Actor George Clooney announced on Jan. 20 that he had recently beaten his second bout of malaria, which he had contracted during a diplomatic trip to Sudan. His publicist told the Washington Post that ...

Health experts say that over 2 thousand cases of Malaria are diagnosed in the United States. In the state of Texas Malaria is infecting people. KTXS Reporter– Chelsie Burroughs tells us how the ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert this week to clinicians that there are locally acquired cases of malaria in Florida and Texas, with four cases identified in Florida ...