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.

This includes larval control — killing off mosquito hatchlings before they mature. Malaria has already been eliminated from several countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia. However there is ...

She said, “if mosquito nets are exposed to the sun ... of LLINs reduced malaria incidence by 50 per cent in sub-Saharan Africa, a region which accounts for more than 90 per cent of global ...

The recent withdrawal of USAID funding threatens to unravel health care systems across Africa, leading to increased malaria ...

The sudden dismantling of USAID -- the country's main foreign development arm -- is unravelling health care systems across Africa that were built from a complicated web of national health ministries, ...

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 ...

the primary mosquito species responsible for spreading malaria in many African countries. If these mosquitoes become infected with malaria parasites, they spread the disease when they feast on a ...

South Africa’s Department of Health warns travellers and communities to stay alert as malaria cases rise in these provinces.

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.

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 ...

the primary mosquito species responsible for spreading malaria in many African countries. If these mosquitoes become infected with malaria parasites, they spread the disease when they feast on a ...