malaria

Malaria expert Brian Greenwood had once resigned himself to the possibility that a successful vaccine for the disease might not become available in his lifetime. Now, at 86 years old, the moment he’s spent four decades working toward has…

What's the deadliest animal in the world?  A tiger?  A great white shark?  A poisonous snake?  Nope.  The most dangerous animal on Earth weighs about 2/1000 of a gram, is smaller than an M&M, and could be knocked silly by a raindrop.…

At least four people in Florida and one in Texas have been diagnosed with malaria that they must have caught near where they live—because, according to health officials, none of them traveled outside the US or their own states. The very…

by Madeleine Hubbard   The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory for malaria after cases were found in Florida and Texas within the past two months, marking the first time in two decades that people…

Daily Wire host Matt Walsh lambasted the partnership between Bud Light and transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney, contending that boycotting the brand will not be difficult, but noting that radical gender theory requires universal and…

Geoengineering to prevent the worst impacts of climate breakdown could expose up to a billion more people to malaria, scientists have found.The report, published in Nature Communications, is the first assessment of how geoengineering the…

A plastic container containing Aedes aegypti mosquitoes Photo: Allison Shelley/For The Washington Post (Getty Images)British biotech firm Oxitec announced this week that it has received approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection…

JaruekChairak | iStock | Getty ImagesCovid-19 will never become an endemic illness and will always behave like an epidemic virus, an expert in biosecurity has warned.Raina MacIntyre, a professor of global biosecurity at the University of…

Jan 22nd 2022AN ARMS RACE between pharmacologists and malaria parasites has been going on since the mid-19th century, when widespread use of quinine began. Few better illustrations of natural selection exist than the repeated emergence…