GM flies promise a good night

Amid global protests, scientists find a new way to control malaria by modifying mosquito sperm to produce only male offspring

Drug booster

Anti-fungal medicine can make malaria drugs deadlier

Infect the mosquitoes

Bacteria that can control malarial spread identified

Die hard

Identified a century ago and viciously attacked by pesticides and drugs, the Anopheles mosquito and the malarial parasite still survive to prey …

UGANDA

Fatal attraction

Why pregnant women attract mosquitoes

Popping situation

Roman tragedy

A mosquito brought down an empire that worlds' militaries couldn't

Not guilty for a change

Global warming is not responsible for Africa's upsurge of malaria

Mosquitoes storm the desert

A cerebral malaria epidemic in Rajasthan has its source in the Indira Gandhi Canal

Why diseases are "mysterious"

The government's public health system is completely defunct. Of late, there has been an alarming rise in disease outbreaks in the country. …

भारत में मलेरिया के मामलों में 60 फीसदी की कमी आई: वर्ल्ड मलेरिया रिपोर्ट

दुनिया भर में मलेरिया से होने वाली मौतों में 2000-2019 की अवधि में लगातार कमी आई है, 2000 में यह 7,36,000 से 2019 में ...

Union govt to consider Rs 65,560 crore corpus to handle future epidemics

India moved from managing travel-related cases to containing clusters and large outbreaks, Union health minister Harsh Vardhan said 

What did the last IPCC report say

Before IPCC releases the special report on global warming, take a look at how the panel has warned us before

Scientists announce final trial results of world’s most advanced malaria vaccine

Vaccine can prevent a substantial number of cases of clinical malaria, especially in areas of high transmission rates

Mosquito matters

The blood-sucking pest is altering itself with changing environment. But studies on it are few and far between

Artemisinin-resistant malaria parasites can infect African mosquitoes, says study

This could have dreadful consequences for Africa, a continent vulnerable to malaria

World Health Assembly: bogged down by slow decisions

Crucial decisions, like those on curbing antimicrobial resistance and tackling air pollution and its health effects, are yet to be taken

Malaria cases rise in Valsad

Gujarat health department confused why efforts to curb the disease have not yielded result

Malaria drug-resistant parasite common in Southeast Asia: study

The problem could get much worse if the parasite reaches Africa, warn experts

"We are fighting a losing battle"

The mere knowledge that mosquitoes are the carriers ofa number of Diseases like malaria, filariasis and dengue is not enough to check the …

Warming up to diseases

KENYA

Genes and dreams

Scientists are on the breakthrough of better malaria drugs

Ammo against AIDS