A new drug that makes human blood poisonous to mosquitoes could be a vital new tool to fight malaria. The drug, called ...

Nitisinone, a drug for genetic disorders, could help control malaria by making human blood toxic to mosquitoes. Anopheles ...

Technology originating in the Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design uses AI to rapidly identify ...

Nitisinone was shown to last longer than ivermectin in the human bloodstream, and was able to kill not only mosquitoes of all ...

Most methods focus on either treating the host (human) or the vector (mosquito). People who have ... the use of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs). This is a very effective way of reducing ...

The dengue virus is transmitted to humans via the bite of an infected mosquito. Only a few mosquito species are vectors for the dengue virus. What is a vector? A vector is a vehicle that carries ...