Monsoon showers bring a much-needed relief from the harsh summer heat but also create concerns over health. This season, an ...

Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of an infected ...

Mosquitoes have long been among humanity’s most formidable adversaries, plaguing us for thousands of years and causing more ...

Simoni and his colleagues are seeking to diminish populations of mosquitoes in the Anopheles gambiae complex that are responsible for spreading the deadly disease. In their labs, the scientists have ...

Varanasi: The health department organised a training workshop on the treatment and management of dengue, chikungunya, and ...

Seven cases of malaria have been reported in Chitwan district so far this fiscal year, according to the District Public ...

It isn’t a day to celebrate mosquitoes. Instead, it marks the discovery, made in 1897 by the British doctor Sir Ronald Ross, that female Anopheles mosquitoes transmit malaria to humans.

The six provinces in the country’s easternmost region account for 90 percent of the national caseload, whereas nearly 80 ...

To combat the deadly diseases spread by mosquitoes, entomologists often turn to the blood-sucking insect’s reproductive life.

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says the state is on the verge of making history, positioning itself to become the first West African geopolitical zone to eliminate ...