Vector control interventions such as the use of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) averted 79% of malaria cases between 2000 and 2015 in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) 1.

Vector control is key to the reduction and elimination of malaria. A limited number of Anopheles species transmit malaria, and their control is primarily insecticide-based, relying on the deployment ...

More than half a million people, the vast majority being children under the age of 5, die annually due to malaria, with Sub-Saharan Africa as the most highly burdened region. Mosquitoes belonging to ...

The CDC released updated operational guidance for investigating locally-acquired mosquito-transmitted malaria in the US.

Public health experts have called for more proactive actions against a new malaria vector, Anopheles stephensi, warning that it could make malaria control and management more difficult in the country ...

Researchers and environmental ethicists explain how mosquito management focuses on reducing disease risk rather than wiping ...

Kampala, Uganda — A species of mosquito that can carry malaria known as Anopheles stephensi has invaded eastern Africa. Moina Spooner, from The Conversation Africa, in October 2020 asked Jeremy Herren ...

In South-East Asia the Anopheles stephensi spreads malaria in many cities. This mosquito species, Anopheles stephensi, is widespread in South-East Asia and parts of the Arabian Peninsula. It is common ...

The Kenya Medical Research Institute recently detected an invasive mosquito species in Laisamis and Saku subcounties of Marsabit county in Kenya’s northern region. The detection of this mosquito poses ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest University of California news every morning. Malaria depends on a complex triangle of biological relationships between the Plasmodium ...

A species of mosquito that can carry malaria - known as Anopheles stephensi - has invaded eastern Africa and is quickly moving across the region. Moina Spooner, from The Conversation Africa, asked ...