In June 2023, concerning news of locally acquired malaria was reported in the US – the first such cases in twenty years. At the time, there were fears that these could be the first signs in an outbreak. Nearly two months on, what important issues did these cases highlight?
What do deep-sea hydrothermal vent ecosystems tell us about parasite richness, diversity and the advantage of certain life history traits? Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and University of California research this question by collecting and analyzing parasite groups from hydrothermal vents.
It is not often that malaria research makes it onto the BBC morning news, but it did so very recently, when the discovery of a naturally occurring bacterium with potential for deployment in malaria control was announced.
A new review in the journal Infectious Diseases of Poverty takes a look at papers examining the effect climate change will have on infectious diseases.