The first cases of malaria have been detected in the United States for the first time in 20 years. Dr. Todd Ellerin, chief of infectious diseases at South Shore Health, talks about the risk of ...

Malaria, a potentially deadly disease caused by a mosquito-borne parasite, is making inroads into the US. Five new cases of malaria — one in Texas and four in Florida — are alarming officials ...

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 ...

– A team of U.S. Army infectious disease experts are working together to gather and analyze the genomic sequence of mosquitos following the first confirmed non-travel related malaria case in ...

The changing climate was also at least partly responsible for a rise in malaria in Ethiopia (with 1.3 million more cases than it had the year before) and Uganda (with 600,000 more), Dr. Ngamije of ...

According to data from the Department of Health in Siaya County, health volunteers treated at least 130,029 malaria patients in 2022. In 2022, the county reported a total of 622,320 cases of malaria.

Malaria has largely been a rural disease in Africa. But stephensi is an urban mosquito, breeding in discarded soda cans and in drainage ditches and thriving in congested cities.