Antimalarial drugs are designed to protect people from malaria, but they may also affect the mosquitoes exposed to them during blood meals. A new Yale study, published in The Journal of Infectious ...

Researchers from WEHI (Melbourne, Australia) have discovered a new way to help prevent malaria that could one day transform mosquito bites from a source of deadly infection into immunity boosters ...

Microbial Misadventures is a recurring series on Body Horrors looking at instances and incidents where human meets microbe in novel and unusual circumstances that challenge our assumptions about how ...

Mosquitoes are usually associated with serious diseases, such as malaria, dengue fever and yellow fever. However, researchers from Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and Radboud University in the ...

Summer barbecues have a special place in my heart. The smell of charcoal-grilled burgers. Ice-cold fizzy drinks. Music, laughs—and the incessant buzzing of mosquitoes. While mostly a nuisance at ...

The invasion of Anopheles stephensi into Africa is increasing risks in urban areas, posing challenges to global malaria elimination. Unlike most malaria vectors ...

A molecular quality-control system in Anopheles mosquitoes-the species responsible for most of the world's malaria cases-is a promising target for future malaria-control strategies, according to a ...

Anopheles mosquitoes comprise a diverse assemblage of species whose ecology underpins the global burden of malaria. These vectors exhibit varied larval‐habitat preferences, ranging from sunlit pools ...

Malaria cases resulting from bites of mosquitoes transported by aircraft from areas where it is common have increased, according to both a retrospective analysis in France and a systematic review of ...