Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Malaria is transmitted to people by mosquitoes infected with a parasite from the _Plasmodium_ family. Jim Gathany via CDC/Dr.

The latest locally aquired case of malaria in the U.S. has been identitfied in Saline County, Arkansas, according to the state's department of health. "This is the only known locally acquired case of ...

A vaccine candidate called R21 has been shown to be up to 80% effective at preventing malaria in young children, according to the latest trial results. This follows from a study published in 2021 from ...

Every year, malaria kills more than 600,000 people worldwide. Most of them are children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. But the disease isn’t confined to poor, rural areas – it’s a global threat that ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kwesi Akonu Adom Mensah Forson, University of Virginia (THE CONVERSATION) Every year, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) But something is shifting. As a malaria researcher working on my Ph.D., I study how ...