Investigators are trying to determine whether a Morris County resident infected with malaria represents the first locally-acquired case of the disease in New Jersey since 1991. The resident, who has ...

State officials are investigating whether a North Jersey resident contracted malaria from a local mosquito, authorities said on Aug. 18. It would be the first reported case of the disease acquired in ...

Does taking folic acid (folate) supplements affect the risk or severity of malaria infection amongst people who are taking (antifolate) medications to prevent or treat malaria, in areas where malaria ...

SEATTLE — Local health officials are still investigating how a Pierce County woman who hadn’t traveled recently might have contracted malaria — but however it happened, the situation involved an ...

Devices made with cheap strips of paper have outperformed two other testing methods in detecting malaria infection in asymptomatic people in Ghana—a diagnostic advance that could accelerate efforts to ...

An east Pierce County woman was diagnosed with malaria on Aug. 2, health officials say. It could be the first known locally acquired case of the disease in Washington. The woman, who had not traveled ...

A total of 175 sock samples were tested, including those of 30 malaria-positive children identified by the study using finger-prick tests and 145 from uninfected children. “While our findings are at ...

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered how Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria when transmitted through a mosquito bite, can hide from the body’s immune system, ...

Scientists have found that a special component in some people's blood provides them with natural protection against malaria.

Malaria mosquitoes prefer to feed -- and feed more -- on blood from people infected with malaria. Researchers from Stockholm University, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and KTH Royal ...

Medical experts explain the rise in non-malarial fevers, attributing it to better testing and historical misdiagnosis. Learn why you must test before treat ...