Namibia's Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) has raised an alert following a sharp rise in malaria cases in the ...

With COVID in retreat (thanks to highly effective vaccines), the three infectious diseases causing public health officials ...

A deadly parasitic infection known as trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness may spread across the world, causing sleeping ...

COVID emerged suddenly, spread rapidly and killed millions of people around the world. Since then, I think it's fair to say that most people have been ...

Prof. Leslie Leiserowitz realized that malaria was in fact surprisingly pertinent to his research. He learned that the malaria parasite thrives inside red blood cells thanks to its knack for crafting ...

Advances in malaria research and control strategies bring hope for more effective treatments and the eventual elimination of ...

Scientists have engineered the pests to provide enhanced immunity to the disease they transmit, according to new study.

M shows promise with 55 effectiveness in trials Learn how this breakthrough could revolutionize malaria prevention ...

Historically, sickle cell anaemia has been widely neglected within its global epicentre of sub-Saharan Africa. More than ...

A breakthrough in understanding how a single-cell parasite makes ergosterol (its version of cholesterol) could lead to more effective drugs for human leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease that afflicts ...

An initially "unknown" illness affecting hundreds in the Democratic Republic of the Congo may be attributable to malaria, ...