Malaria caused 597,000 deaths worldwide in 2023, with children under 5 accounting for 76 percent of all malaria deaths in the World Health Organization’s Africa region.

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 malaria parasite doesn't make mosquitoes sick, so mosquito immune systems don't fight it. To get around the problem, the team used a gene-editing technique called CRISPR.

As the South had the most malaria transmission, the center was based in Atlanta, still home to the CDC today. The tools used to control it now, while improved, adhere to many of the same principles.

The CDC issued an alert on Monday that there are cases of malaria in Texas and Florida. What is malaria and how does it spread? CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Leana Wen explains.

The study was conducted in a malaria-endemic area in Mali (Kalifaboubou and Torodo). It included two populations of healthy individuals: Adults aged 18-55 years and children aged 6-10 years. The ...

619,000. That’s how many lives were claimed by malaria in 2021, according to the World Health Organization. That year, the agency estimated there were some 247 million malaria cases worldwide.

Malaria is among the oldest infectious diseases and one of the deadliest. Years of rapid progress stalled about a decade ago, leaving the toll in 2019 at a staggering 229 million new infections ...

Malaria infection rates are soaring in Ethiopia, where a combination of armed conflict, climate change and mosquitoes’ growing resistance to drugs and insecticides has accelerated the spread of ...

Health Local News Northwest Malaria possibly contracted in WA, would be state’s first local case Aug. 6, 2025 at 6:58 pm Updated Aug. 6, 2025 at 7:50 pm ...

Waiting for the perfect, 100% effective, one-dose lifetime malaria vaccine means waiting for years, during which millions of kids will die. It's time to use the full arsenal of tools to protect them.

In modern times, malaria is thought of as a tropical disease but evidence from ancient bones reveals a different narrative. Above: In Ambowuha, Ethiopia, Birtukan Demissie and her siblings are ...