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Every year, malaria kills more than 600,000 people worldwide. Most of them are children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. But ...

For decades, one of the strongest weapons against malaria has been a one-two punch: low-tech mosquito bed nets to physically block biting, treated with deadly insecticides to kill the mosquitoes. With ...

Treating baby wraps with insect repellent could be an effective and scalable way to protect young children in Africa from ...

Bed nets treated with a new kind of insecticide cut malaria cases in children by almost half in a large trial in Tanzania, according to a study in The Lancet, raising hopes of a new weapon in the ...

A female Anopheles gambiae mosquito feeds on human blood through a mosquito net. What if, instead of killing mosquitoes that carry malaria, we tried to kill the tiny malaria parasite inside the ...

While a physical barrier may not be the best option to throw up between bordering nations, physical protection such as clothing and screens can be very effective to prevent bites from annoying pests.

Combining insecticide-treated bed nets with vaccines and other control measures may provide the best chance at eliminating malaria, which killed nearly 600,000 people worldwide in 2013, most of them ...

What if, instead of killing mosquitoes that carry malaria, we tried to kill the tiny malaria parasite inside the skeeters before they could pass it on to humans when they bit? That's a question that ...