Florida health officials are now issuing warnings for a rise in cases of dengue fever in South Florida. Eleven locally-acquired cases of the disease have been found in Broward County and Miami-Dade ...

Don’t rule out malaria just because you haven’t traveled anywhere. In light of recent locally acquired cases in the U.S., the lack of international travel should not exclude a diagnosis of malaria ...

Children who live in regions of the world where malaria is common can mount an immune response to infection with malaria parasites that may enable them to avoid repeated bouts of high fever and ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Even when a person suffering from malaria is burning up with fever and too sick to function, the tiny blood-eating parasites lurking inside them continue to flourish, relentlessly ...

Malaria, dengue fever, leprosy, diseases associated with tropical climates such as Africa, Asia and South America, are coming closer to home. As close as Florida and Texas, in fact, largely because of ...

Life-threatening malaria is accompanied by intermittent high fever and shaking chills, produced by the release of the malarial parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, into the bloodstream at the end of each ...

Dr Godwin Ntadom, the National Coordinator of the Nigerian National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP), has stated that it’s important for individuals to always confirm their fever is malaria before ...

One thing worse than coming down with Malaria fever is not getting proper treatment for it. Maybe you’ve been there: trying one prescription after another, battling Malaria symptoms that seem to ...

FILE - A view of the Panzi general Hospital, in southwestern Congo, Thursday, Nov 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Lucien Lufutu, File) DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A man in western Congo died Thursday with hemorrhagic ...

MSF emergency health promotion manager Anthony Kinyua was part of MSF's emergency response to a surge in malaria cases in ...

The parasites that cause 200 million cases of malaria each year can withstand feverish temperatures that make their human hosts miserable. Now, a team is beginning to understand how they do it. The ...