A new report found 1.2 million people die from malaria each year. Feb. 2, 2012— -- Malaria kills 1.2 million people each year, more than twice as many deaths as previously thought, according to ...

Across Earth's history, our planet has been home to an estimated 109 billion human beings. And according to another oft-repeated factoid, half of all the people who have ever existed were killed by ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning doctors and public health officials about a handful of locally acquired cases of malaria. There hasn’t been a case of malaria caught ...

While researchers have spent decades searching for malaria vaccines, only two have ever been authorized, a situation many scientists hope to change as they race to leverage new technology against one ...

Malaria is a global scourge, with international health officials constantly on the lookout for better ways to stave off the disease, which is especially deadly to children. A disease that spreads ...

Working underground in a Biosafety Level 3 insectary in Tres Cantos, Madrid, researchers at the pharmaceutical giant GSK were frustrated. The mosquitoes they were using to study experimental medicines ...

Scientists have come up with a potential new weapon in the fight against malaria, a compound that causes the disease-causing parasite to literally burst. Announcing the discovery in the journal Nature ...

LONDON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - There were around 11 million more cases of malaria in 2023 than in 2022, up to an estimated 263 million, according to a new World Health Organization report, marking another ...

In early 2022, malaria cases in the Ethiopian city of Dire Dawa surged, with more than 2,400 people sickened. The spike in infections was the work of an invasive mosquito species that’s spreading ...