The ongoing global effort to combat malaria has a new challenge: Anopheles stephensi, a species of mosquito that is able to reproduce in enclosed, urban areas. The scientific community is adapting, ...
In the 1990s, charities, governments and individual philanthropists invested billions of dollars into one goal: malaria ...
As we recognize World Malaria Day on April 25, we reflect on the relentless battle against malaria, a life-threatening disease transmitted by female malaria-carrying mosquitoes. According to the World ...
Combined with the changing parasite, the impact could be terrible. “The genotype of the parasite, mixed with Anopheles ...
Both are Anopheles stephensi, a major carrier of the malaria parasite in urban Asia. Using a technique called CRISPR, James has edited a gene in the larva on the right so that the insect cannot ...
As Nigeria joined the rest of the world in marking this year’s World Malaria Day (WMD) on Thursday, an indigenous pharmaceutical company, St. Racheal’s Pharma, called on both the federal and state ...
feeding female Anopheles stephensi mosquito crouching forward and downward on her forelegs on a human skin surface, in the process of obtaining its blood meal through its sharp, needle-like labrum ...
The species - Anopheles Stephensi was discovered by researchers at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri), in collaboration with the Ministry of Health's Division of National Malaria ...
In 2022, there were an estimated 249 million malaria cases globally, which led to the death of 608,000 individuals ...
Sub-Saharan Africa is disproportionally affected by malaria . The region accounts for 95% of the world's malaria cases. The disease kills an African ...
Over 35 Kenyans have been killed by floods across the country. A health expert has advised Kenyans on precautions to take to ...
Anopheles stephensi transmits Plasmodium vivax - one of five plasmodium parasites that cause malaria. [iStockphoto] At one o'clock on the morning of February 7, Hellen Robai woke up with bouts of ...
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