Congo’s health ministry told Reuters this week that malaria was the culprit: “The mystery has finally been solved. It’s a ...

And yet, there are similarities. Malaria is caused by a parasite, usually found in tropical regions, that infects humans after they have been bitten by a mosquito. This parasite is transmitted ...

In this short film Dr Michael Mosley investigates the parasite Plasmodium that carries malaria ... his blood with Plasmodium and watch under a microscope as this parasite infects his red blood ...

The emergence of drug-resistant parasites ... biology of malaria. Such interdisciplinary research started to dissect the dynamics of drug-resistance evolution under various clinical and ...

(Malaria is caused by a parasite that’s spread by mosquitoes ... it by taking small blood samples and looking at them under the microscope,” Roess said. “All local clinics should ...