Research led by UC Santa Cruz finds that both non-native and native birds play a key role in the transmission of a disease ...

Avian malaria is spreading across Hawaiʻi in a way scientists didn’t fully grasp until now: nearly every forest bird species can help keep the disease alive. Researchers found the parasite at 63 of 64 ...

In 2007, molecular biologist Thierry Diagana, head of global health biomedical research at Novartis, and his colleagues were searching for fresh drugs against malaria, medicines that the parasites had ...

November 26, 2009 (Washington, DC) — Results from a study conducted in 2 health facilities in Kenya show that the mistreatment of malaria might be as high as 66%. The findings, presented here at the ...

Climate change could lead to half a million more deaths from malaria in Africa over the next 25 years, according to new ...

The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is becoming increasingly resistant to the artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) currently in use. Researchers at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for ...