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

Discover nitisinone, a drug for rare diseases that could also combat mosquitoes and their transmission of malaria.

A drug for a rare disease makes human blood deadly to mosquitoes and could help in the fight against malaria, researchers have found. Several methods are currently used to reduce mosquito numbers ...

There are various approaches being utilized to lower mosquito numbers and the risk of malaria. One such method involves the use of the antiparasitic drug ivermectin. When mosquitoes consume blood ...

In this short film Dr Michael Mosley investigates the parasite Plasmodium that carries malaria. This disease kills more than half a million people per year. He gives a sample of his blood to the ...

A study found when patients take the drug nitisinone, their blood becomes deadly to mosquitoes. In the fight against malaria, controlling the mosquito population is crucial. Several methods are ...

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

A drug for a rare disease makes human blood deadly to mosquitoes and could help in the fight against malaria, researchers have found. Several methods are currently used to reduce mosquito numbers and, ...