Learn more about malarial infections from Plasmodium falciparum, and their influence on human movement and interaction around ...

A new study suggests that for the last 74,000 years, malaria shaped where early humans could live in Africa—fragmenting ...

Extrinsic environmental factors influence the spatiotemporal dynamics of many organisms, including insects that transmit the pathogens responsible for vector-borne diseases (VBDs). Temperature is an ...

Climate change has become a pressing public health crisis around the world, as disease patterns worsen and emerge in regions where they did not exist before. Health experts are particularly concerned ...

"Malaria continues to claim hundreds of thousands of lives every year, most of them young African children," he said.

A group of UC scientists led by Greg Lanzaro, professor of pathology, microbiology and immunology in the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, recently completed an analysis of a strategy aimed at ...

Few may know that today – August 20 – marks the relatively obscure observance of World Mosquito Day, but mosquitoes (Spanish for “little flies”) are far from obscure. These insects have coexisted with ...