In Shaw, Miss., officials have failed to prevent the sewer system from backing up after heavy rains, causing water ...

David AuCoin, Ph.D., shares insights from his lab’s work developing prototype rapid diagnostic tests for infectious diseases ...

IN the fight against malaria, global health workers have long relied on bed nets treated with insecticide to ward off disease-transmitting mosquitos. But with insecticide resistance rising, a new ...

Scientists have fabricated two bed netting prototypes targeting malaria-causing blood parasites. They designed netting systems to deliver antimalarial drugs called Endochin-like Quinolones (ELQs) that ...

Southwest Research Institute tapped into its drug formulation and manufacturing expertise to fabricate two bed netting ...

They weren’t snakes, of course, but nematodes, also known as roundworms—and, it turns out, they’re the most common ...

It is not contagious and cannot be spread by touching, hugging, sharing food or being near someone who has it.

Mosquitoes exposed to the newly developed compounds show reduced malarial parasite growth even when infected four days later.

Researchers have shown that the evolution of a family of exported proteins in the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum enabled it to infect humans.

A group of researchers has developed a new formulation for the only drug available on the market to treat helminths, as worms ...

Scientists have revealed how a parasite that affects millions of people every year evades our immune defenses.