Chief Officer for Preventive and Promotive, Janerose Tioko, stated that malaria accounted for 30 percent of the reported ...

Anatomy of Anopheles stephensi, a dangerous urban malaria vector that has recently started to invade Africa. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...

A single dose of the drug nitisinone could render a person’s blood lethal to mosquitoes for five days, modelling suggests.

East Africa faces a deadly new threat from the arrival of Anopheles stephensi, a mosquito native to Asia and the Middle East that thrives in urban areas and is immune to insecticides. The World ...

Nitisinone, a drug for rare diseases, kills mosquitoes when present in human blood and may become a new tool to fight malaria ...

Low doses of a drug already approved for treating rare genetic conditions in humans kills mosquitoes dead. Scientists say it ...

However, the emergence of an invasive species of mosquito on the continent could massively increase those numbers. Anopheles stephensi is native to parts of South Asia and the Middle East but was ...

The species - Anopheles Stephensi was discovered by researchers ... was discovered during a routine mosquito surveillance. "Kemri and the Ministry of Health has put in place efforts in research ...

Malaria, responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year worldwide, is caused by a parasite transmitted through the ...

A molecular quality-control system in Anopheles mosquitoes-the species responsible for most of the world's malaria cases-is a promising target for future malaria-control strategies, according to a ...