Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The jungle trek is the only way to reach remote communities - Sarah Newey A hefty microscope, a bundle of bed nets and an ice-box ...

Research led by UC Santa Cruz finds that both non-native and native birds play a key role in the transmission of a disease ...

A group of researchers is calling on colleagues around the world to join them in what they call 'pathogen prospecting' by tracking down archival specimens of mosquitoes in museums and other ...

With victims numbering in the millions, malaria is an infectious disease caused by the bite of a mosquito carrying the malaria parasite. After penetrating the skin, the pathogen moves with helical ...

As a medical geographer who studies emerging pathogens and lives in Florida, I’ve noticed an interesting pattern throughout the past several months: more calls from journalists. Often, they will tell ...

Advances in vaccine technology, antibody therapies, and genetic surveillance are giving researchers new tools to fight ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday issued approval to the world's first vaccine that can fight malaria, a disease that kills about 500,000 people worldwide each year. The WHO issued a ...

LMU parasitologists have shown how Toxoplasma recycles its cell envelope – and revealed an important difference to the malaria pathogen. According to estimates, about a third of the world’s population ...

How old is malaria? Researchers used to think it was two or three thousand years old at most — a modern disease that appeared long after most humans gave up the nomadic hunting lifestyle and formed ...

An archival mosquito collected by G.E. Bohart in Virginia in 1943 is featured in this Creative Commons image from the California Academy of Sciences. A group of researchers is calling on colleagues ...