A warm, wet spring means more mosquitoes. How to protect yourself from the diseases they spread
Mosquito bites are annoying. They can also have deadly consequences. So what diseases do mosquitoes in Australia carry?
Sep 2, 2025
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Infections: News and Research on Malaria
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Data science uncovers patterns in health service use linked to child mortality
Children in sub-Saharan Africa have the world's highest rates of under-5 mortality at 74 deaths per 1,000 live births, which is 14 times higher than the risk for children in North America and Europe. In 2021, sub-Saharan ...
Aug 27, 2025
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'Spatial emanators' offer yearlong malaria protection as WHO issues new recommendation supporting their use
A relatively new class of insecticide that can be disseminated on something the size of a sheet of paper offers protection for up to a year against mosquitoes that spread malaria, as well as dengue, West Nile, yellow fever, ...
Aug 27, 2025
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Millions of malaria diagnoses may actually be brucellosis
Brucellosis is a serious and often neglected disease endemic to many low- and middle-income countries around the world. Because it shares many of the same clinical symptoms as malaria—including fever and joint pain—it can ...
Aug 21, 2025
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New malaria drug for babies offers hope to health workers in Uganda
Alice Nekesa did not know she was infected with malaria-causing parasites until it was too late. She was in the fourth month of pregnancy last year when she started bleeding, a miscarriage later attributed to untreated malaria ...
Aug 20, 2025
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A chemical trick could turn a losing malaria drug into a winner
The search for new ways to treat malaria—a disease that kills some 600,000 people a year, most of them children in Sub-Saharan Africa—may have just gotten a boost.
Aug 11, 2025
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Malaria possibly contracted in Washington state, would be state's first local case
A woman in east Pierce County contracted malaria despite not having traveled out of state recently, according to the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department.
Aug 8, 2025
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WHO says nearly 100,000 struck with cholera in Sudan
The World Health Organization on Thursday said nearly 100,000 cholera cases had been reported in Sudan since July last year, as it warned of more hunger, displacement and disease to come.
Aug 8, 2025
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Preexisting anemia may make malaria worse, research finds
New research from The University of Toledo suggests that individuals with anemia may have a significantly higher risk of developing severe complications if they contract malaria. The findings were published this month in ...
Aug 5, 2025
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The global health system can build back better after US aid cuts: Here's how
Steep cuts in US government funding have thrown much of the field of global health into a state of fear and uncertainty. Once a crown jewel of US foreign policy, valued at some US$12 billion a year, global health has been ...
Aug 4, 2025
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