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 ...
A malaria patient who lives in the DC region has been released from the hospital after contracting the deadly disease locally, the Maryland Department of Health reported Friday. The local case of ...
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 ...
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Rare genetic variant protects against malaria-causing parasite by making red blood cells bigger
Scientists have found that a special component in some people's blood provides them with natural protection against malaria.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
New research shows most Hawaiian forest birds carry avian malaria, fueling widespread transmission and raising extinction ...
Artist reconstruction of the life of CHO001, a long-distance trader analyzed in this study who suffered from malaria and was buried at the site of Chokhopani, Nepal, ca 800 BCE. The foreground depicts ...
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