malaria

Super 72+ hour nearly perfect mosquito repellent could save millions of lives every year

Posted in Medicine on 1st Jul, 2018
by Alex Muller

Mosquitos cause millions of deaths every year from Malaria and Yellow fever.

Alarm as 'super malaria' spreads in South East Asia

Posted in Medicine on 24th Sep, 2017
by Alex Muller

This dangerous form of the malaria parasite cannot be killed with the main anti-malaria drugs.

New drug effective against malaria

Posted in Medicine on 17th Sep, 2017
by Alex Muller

Promising clinical trial results could give doctors a new tool against drug-resistant strains of malaria parasite.

The world's first vaccine against malaria will be introduced in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi - starting 2018

Posted in Medicine on 24th Apr, 2017
by Alex Muller

The RTS,S vaccine trains the immune system to attack the malaria parasite, which is spread by mosquito bites.

Scientists may have just made a malaria vaccine breakthrough

Posted in Science on 16th Feb, 2017
by Alex Muller

The ultimate solution, a vaccine, has remained elusive for decades.