When a malaria-infected bird is bitten by mosquitoes over the course of 3 hours, the first insects to feed end up carrying fewer malaria parasites than those that feed later – and the same may apply ...

Malaria has plagued people for millennia. It is referenced in ancient texts and has even been detected in Egyptian mummies that are more than 5,000 years old. During the twentieth century alone, ...

Dietary sugars and gut microbes play a key role in promoting malaria parasite infection in mosquitoes. Researchers have uncovered evidence that mosquitoes fed a sugar diet show an increased abundance ...

Malaria has spread from mosquitoes to humans inside the U.S. for the first time in 20 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned. Four cases of mosquito-transmitted ...

An Anopholes mosquito, the vector for malaria, taking a blood meal from a tasty human. Sarah Reece & Sinclair Stammers, CC-BY Mosquitoes can be infected with multiple strains of the malaria parasite, ...

Amid the preparatory discussions for COP30, which also involve health-related topics, a study contributes to our ...

Researchers have chanced upon a bacteria naturally present in the gut of mosquitoes that inhibits the growth of a parasite that causes the deadliest form of malaria. Unlikely to produce resistance, ...

Living on a diet of blood requires some specific adaptations, such as a way to keep the food source flowing. To prevent their meal from turning into an indigestible clot, mosquitoes evolved very ...

Scientists are exploring new ways to combat malaria, a deadly disease spread through mosquito bites. A recent study shows promising results with a new vaccine strategy using genetically modified ...

Outsmarting insecticide resistance: How one genetic edit in mosquitoes self-propagates across generations, cutting malaria transmission to near zero without harming survival. Anopheles mosquito larva ...