Malawi’s campaign to fight malaria by providing free or cheap mosquito nets has failed to curb the number of deaths caused by the disease, a deputy health minister said Friday.

One of the biggest reasons behind malaria spread is climate change, but researchers have said that other factors such as migration and land-use changes are also likely to play a role.

American researchers have discovered a new protein that may help control disease-spreading mosquitoes.

The study conducted by Cornell scientists

Since a powerful quake rocked the country in January, it is now malaria that threatens the hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in makeshift shelters

Scars on Severion Wayet’s arms reveal where the flesh-burrowing Guinea worms burst through her skin.

It was an agonising process that lasted days

Scientists at Vanderbilt and Yale universities have made a major breakthrough in the fight against malaria.

They have successfully transplanted

Papua New Guinea’s cholera outbreak has spread to 2,000 people, a World Health Organization official said Monday as he warned that poor water sanitation

Scientists in the U.S. say a vaccine that masquerades as chikungunya virus might work against the mosquito-borne disease.

There is no known vaccine

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute scientists have identified a key protein used by the malaria parasite to change human red blood cells, ensuring the parasite’s survival.

According to a new study, no vaccine currently exists for West Nile Virus, but a new therapeutic made from tobacco plants has been shown to arrest the infection.