Malaria poses a grave global threat, with cerebral malaria being a dangerous complication. This condition, particularly ...

Natalie Venegas is a Weekend Reporter at Newsweek based in New York. Her focus is reporting on education, social justice issues, healthcare, crime and politics while specializing on marginalized and ...

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LUBUMBASHI, Democratic Republic of the Congo – The nation's health ministry said Tuesday that a previously unidentified disease circulating in the country's Panzi health zone is a severe form of ...

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The world's deadliest animal can be squashed flat with a quick slap: It's the mosquito. The buzzing insects are more than annoying — they spread disease. When they bite and drink blood from a person ...

John Frean, associate professor at the NICD, told Africa Check that these claims are "unscientific nonsense" and also potentially lethally dangerous. Health misinformation like this is usually spread ...

A Washington state public health team’s investigation suggests a Tacoma-area woman is state’s first known locally acquired ...

After a Pierce County woman was diagnosed with malaria, Washington residents might be wondering about their risks of getting the deadly disease — and how to prevent the mosquitos that spread it. The ...

KINSHASA, Congo — The mystery flu-like illness that has killed dozens of people in southwest Congo in recent weeks might be malaria, according to results from laboratory samples of infected people, ...