The World Health Organization approved the first-ever vaccine to prevent malaria on Wednesday, a shot that could save tens of thousands of lives each year, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa where ...

With multi-resistant germs becoming more and more of a threat, we are in need of new antibiotics now more than ever. Unfortunately, antibiotics cannot distinguish between pathogens and beneficial ...

Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) studied the human immune response after immunization with the malaria pathogen Plasmodium falciparum. Their goal was to find out against which ...

When a mosquito carrying the parasite Plasmodium falciparium bites a person, that person can get malaria. So what does the P. falciparium parasite do to mosquitoes? Researchers wanted to know more ...

With victims numbering in the millions, malaria is an infectious disease caused by the bite of a mosquito carrying the malaria parasite. After penetrating the skin, the pathogen moves with helical ...

As a medical geographer who studies emerging pathogens and lives in Florida, I’ve noticed an interesting pattern throughout the past several months: more calls from journalists. Often, they will tell ...

The World Health Organization on Wednesday recommended the world's first malaria vaccine for children in sub-Saharan Africa and other regions with moderate to high transmission of the deadliest ...

How old is malaria? Researchers used to think it was two or three thousand years old at most — a modern disease that appeared long after most humans gave up the nomadic hunting lifestyle and formed ...

LMU parasitologists have shown how Toxoplasma recycles its cell envelope – and revealed an important difference to the malaria pathogen. According to estimates, about a third of the world’s population ...

There are more clinical phenotypes of severe malaria than those defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), according to a study led by ISGlobal. The results indicate that heart failure can be a ...

Scientists have studied the human immune response after immunization with the malaria pathogen Plasmodium falciparum. Their findings could explain why natural infections, to which people in endemic ...