Scientists now know how the deadly malaria parasite jumped from gorillas to humans
A 50,000-year-old gorilla DNA sample has led researchers to answers about how the deadliest malaria parasite came to infect humans.
Worry for India: Drug resistant malaria spreads in Myanmar, puts millions at risk
If the spread of artemisinin-resistant malaria parasites were to reach into India that would pose a serious threat to the chances of global control and eradication of the killer mosquito-borne disease.
Drug-resistant malaria spreading fast in Southeast Asia, warn experts
Drug-resistant malaria parasites are now firmly established in border regions in four Southeast Asian countries.
Rise of drug-resistant malaria in Southeast Asia alarming doctors
U.S. experts are raising the alarm over the spread of drug-resistant malaria in several Southeast Asian countries, endangering major global gains in fighting the mosquito-borne disease that kills more than 600,000 people annually