WHO warns of increase in malaria cases and deaths
Deaths linked to malaria last year rose last year, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, warning also of an increase in cases and resistance to current treatment.
Dec 4, 2025
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Chemical Actions and Uses: News and Research on Insecticides
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How a fly sees the world, and why understanding its vision can help prevent disease
Jakob von Uexküll was a Baltic German biologist ahead of his time, intrigued by the idea that animals inhabit unique perceptual worlds quite unlike our own. In 1934, he described angling for flies by swinging an adhesive-covered ...
Sep 17, 2025
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West Nile virus-positive mosquitoes detected in San Jose
Mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus have been detected in the city for the first time this year, officials said.
Aug 28, 2025
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Identifying risks of human flea infestations in plague-endemic areas of Madagascar
Madagascar is one of the last places where outbreaks of human bubonic plague still happen regularly. Fleas carrying the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis can spread the disease through their bites. And while a species commonly ...
May 1, 2024
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Q&A: Scientist who helped design R21 anti-malaria vaccine reflects on 30 years of research, and what it promises
Until three years ago nobody had developed a vaccine against any parasitic disease. Now there are two against malaria: the RTS,S and the R21 vaccines.
Apr 25, 2024
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Brazil's health agents scour junkyards and roofs for mosquitos to fight dengue epidemic
The small team of state public health workers slalomed between auto parts strewn across a Rio de Janeiro junkyard, looking for standing water where mosquitoes might have laid their eggs.
Feb 16, 2024
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Special mosquitoes are being bred to fight dengue. How the old enemies are now becoming allies
For decades, preventing dengue fever in Honduras has meant teaching people to fear mosquitoes and avoid their bites. Now, Hondurans are being educated about a potentially more effective way to control the disease—and it goes ...
Sep 13, 2023
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New publication unravels the impact of the widespread use of insecticides for malaria control
Several diseases are caused by viruses, bacteria, or even parasites. Sometimes, these microorganisms cannot infect humans (or other animals) by themselves, so they rely on other organisms—called vectors—to carry them around ...
Aug 7, 2023
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Florida county reports its 7th case of locally contracted malaria
A southwest Florida county has document a seventh case of malaria, state authorities said.
Jul 19, 2023
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What to know about malaria after the first local case in Texas in 30 years
Texas's first locally acquired case of malaria in 30 years was recently reported by health officials. The patient was diagnosed with the disease after working outdoors in South Texas's Cameron County, the Texas Department ...
Jul 3, 2023
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