Latest Malaria News

Climate change is bringing malaria to new areas. In Africa, it never left

Apr. 25, 2024 12:23 PM EDT

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — When a small number of cases of locally transmitted malaria were found in the United States last year, it was a reminder that climate change is reviving or migrating the threat of some diseases. But across the African continent malaria has never left, killing or sickening...

Malaria is still killing people in Kenya, but a vaccine and local drug production may help

Apr. 25, 2024 03:13 AM EDT

MIGORI, Kenya (AP) — As the coffin bearing the body of Rosebella Awuor was lowered into the grave, heart-wrenching sobs from mourners filled the air. Her sister Winnie Akinyi, the guardian to Awuor’s orphaned son, fell to the ground, wailing. It was the latest of five deaths in...