In Africa, home to more than 95 percent of the world's 627,000 malaria deaths in 2020, the parasite is mostly spread in rural areas preferred by the dominant Anopheles gambiae group of mosquitoes.

A study reveals that Africa's low rates of Zika virus outbreaks may be due to a surprising factor: the genetic makeup of local mosquito populations. Research by scientists at the High Meadows ...

George Bernard / Science Source Anopheles mosquitoes (shown here in the Perugia lab) exist on every continent apart from Antarctica, but most malaria-related deaths take place in Africa.

To arrive at their results, the researchers tested the effects of nitisinone blood on the Anopheles gambiae mosquito, a common carrier of malaria parasites in Africa. Taken from patients who were ...

Dengue is a common mosquito-borne illness in many countries, including the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific Islands, according to the CDC. And the federal public health ...