Approximately 1,300 cases of malaria are reported each year in the United States; nearly all of these cases occur in travelers, many of whom fail to receive or adhere to prescribed chemoprophylaxis or ...

Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja on Thursday informed that a new genus of malaria called ''plasmodium ovale'' has been detected in the state. The disease was detected in a soldier who travelled from ...

There is no reason to worry as the health minister has said that the spread of the disease can be avoided with timely treatment and preventive measures At a time when Kerala is grappling with a ...

“Insecticide-treated bed nets are a proven defence. This is a vector control tool that reduces contact of humans to ...

Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites, which are spread to humans by mosquitoes. The genomes of three human infective Plasmodium species are relatively well studied, especially P. falciparum, the ...

Malaria is a vector borne disease which is responsible for approximately 400 thousand deaths world wide annually, resulting in an enormous public health burden on many of the tropical and subtropical ...

Although the government’s published annual report on malaria shows a gradual declining trend and a stable one over the past few years, it is for sure that we categorically cannot rule out the possible ...

The genomes of the two least common species of human malaria parasites have been revealed in Nature by a team of scientists from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their international ...

Innate immune responses have been shown to contribute to the control of malaria infections in mice and there is indirect evidence that they also contribute to the control of infection in humans. There ...

A handful of malaria cases spread by mosquitos have been reported across the country in the last two months, marking the first time the disease has had a local spread in 20 years. A public health ...

The prevalence of malaria infection in 102 paired maternal-blood and umbilical cord-blood samples was assessed by microscopy and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in a holoendemic area in Kenya.