Current vector control strategies involving LLINs and IRS are effective against malaria transmitting mosquitoes. However, the rise of insecticide… Read more »
New sampling and sequencing of malaria parasite from apes and monkeys is re-writing the phylogeny and origin story of one of humankinds most deadly… Read more »
A review of the McGill summer institute’s course in Global Health Diagnostics
On the northern shores of Lake Victoria, Uganda, communities are blighted by schistosomiasis despite 10 years of on-going… Read more »
For nine years, ACTwatch has been monitoring the state of anti-malarial and diagnostic markets across sub-Saharan Africa and the… Read more »
The use of ivermectin in treating NTDs is well known, but its potential use in preventing malaria transmission is relatively… Read more »
Could a new anti-saliva vaccine protect against multiple mosquito-borne diseases? The Phase I clinical trials have just begun...
A molecule produced by the malaria parasite makes its host more attractive to mosquitoes and affects mosquito physiology in ways… Read more »
Maize pollen, an important food source for mosquito larvae, produces chemicals that encourage egg- carrying Anopheles arabiensis… Read more »
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