A new drug called nitisinone, which makes human blood poisonous to mosquitoes, could be a vital new tool to fight malaria.

Malaria is a vector-borne disease caused by the parasite Plasmodium and transmitted to humans through the bite of the Anopheles mosquito. While the parasitic disease is usually treated with the drug ...

The insects are known to travel up to 20 miles in search of a “blood meal,” according to the Santa Clara County Vector ...

Median factor VIII activity levels after day 28 were 1.7-5.2 IU per deciliter in group 1 and 19.3-39.9 IU per deciliter in group 2, correlating with peripheral-blood vector copy numbers.